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Radiation levels rise in reactor building
VERNON -— About a dozen workers in the reactor building at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant were evacuated Tuesday around noon because of a doubling of radiation levels in a portion of the plant, Entergy officials said late Tuesday.
The higher radiation levels were the result of human error, they said, in changing a filter in the reactor's cooling system.
There were no radioactive releases to the environment and the problem did not affect the operation of the plant nor its power production, according to Robert Williams, spokesman for Entergy Nuclear.
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