A contractor at the Palisades Nuclear Plant fell into a pool of water above the reactor at the plant on Tuesday. That’s as owner Holtec International moves toward reopening the shuttered facility.
According to an event report published by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the contractor fell into a reactor cavity and ingested “some amount of cavity water.”
The report goes on to state that the “individual was decontaminated by radiation protection personnel but had 300 counts per minute detected in their hair.”…