RADIOACTIVE LEAK AT BELGIUM PLANT CONFIRMED BY EU NUCLEAR NETWORK
September 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN nuclear regulators have been alerted about a release of Iodine-131 gas from the Institut National de Radio-éléments (IRE) in Fleurus, Belgium. As a result of environmental sampling of grass, the Belgian Federal Agency for Nuclear Control restricted the consumption of vegetables and milk produced within 5 km of the plant, near the south Belgium city Charleroi. The leak was reported by the agency as a Level 3 incident on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) scale, which has seven grades of incident severity.
It later declared ...
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