Norway nuclear reactor dealing with radioactive leak – authority

Published time: 25 Oct, 2016 10:03Edited time: 25 Oct, 2016 10:15

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The reactor hall of the Halden Reactor © FinnWikiNo / Wikipedi

The Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) has said that one of the country’s research reactors suffered a leak of radioactive iodine on Monday.

It added that the leak was small and the focus now is on fixing the problem.

“The radioactive leak was due to a technical failure during treatment of the fuel in the reactor hall. Emissions are low,” astatement from the NRPA said on Tuesday.

The leak took place at the Halden Reactor, located in Ostfold county in southeast Norway.

The incident happened at 1:45pm local time on Monday.

Those working at the reactor at the time of the incident were promptly evacuated when the alarm went off.