Unusual Event Prompts Evacuation of Portion of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

Reported by: Amy Katcher
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Updated: 8/10/2012 7:26 pm
     TVA says an unusual event at the Watts Bar nuclear plant forced its evacuation this morning.
    Spokesman Mike Bradley says an ammonia-water leak developed in a secondary water system at the turbine building at the plant.
    That happened just before 9:00am.
    Between two and three hundred employees were evacuated as a result.
    The leak was fixed and the event was declared over just before 1:30pm this afternoon.
    Bradley says the leak did not disrupt the reactor.
    There were no injuries and there was no risk to the general public.
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