Fatality at Monticello site
A contractor working at the Monticello nuclear power plant in Minnesota was fatally injured when equipment he was working on made contact with a high-voltage power line. The reactor was already offline following an incident in a non-nuclear part of the plant the previous week, when a substation breaker had opened. The accident happened just outside the plant gates, where the contractor had been operating a lifting device as part of work to remediate the earlier incident. A loss of power to non-safety equipment was caused by the accident, and equipment necessary to provide cooling water to the shut-down reactor was affected. The employee was taken to hospital by helicopter where he was pronounced dead. Although the fatality was not a nuclear-related incident, plant operators have declared a Notification of Unusual Event to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the lowest of the regulator's four emergency classifications.
A contractor working at the Monticello nuclear power plant in Minnesota was fatally injured when equipment he was working on made contact with a high-voltage power line. The reactor was already offline following an incident in a non-nuclear part of the plant the previous week, when a substation breaker had opened. The accident happened just outside the plant gates, where the contractor had been operating a lifting device as part of work to remediate the earlier incident. A loss of power to non-safety equipment was caused by the accident, and equipment necessary to provide cooling water to the shut-down reactor was affected. The employee was taken to hospital by helicopter where he was pronounced dead. Although the fatality was not a nuclear-related incident, plant operators have declared a Notification of Unusual Event to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the lowest of the regulator's four emergency classifications.
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