Blast near Russian nuclear power plant

A small explosion near a Russian nuclear power station killed a metal worker and injured two others, officials said yesterday, but there was no radiation leak or threat to people living nearby. The explosion occurred on Thursday at a metals smelter...

A small explosion near a Russian nuclear power station killed a metal worker and injured two others, officials said yesterday, but there was no radiation leak or threat to people living nearby.

The explosion occurred on Thursday at a metals smelter near the Leningrad Atomic Power Station, whose second reactor has been under repair since July.

A spokesman for the local administration in the town of Sosnovy Bor said one worker had died from burns, while one of the other two men injured was in a serious condition.

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