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April 19, 1982
Nuclear plant fire
Doses no danger,
NRC official say
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SURRY, Va. — No appreci
able amounts of radiation
escaped in a fire at the Surry
nuclear power station, but it will
take another day to determine
exact levels of radiation leakage,
a Nuclear Regulatory Commis
sion spokesman said Sunday.
No injuries were reported in
the Saturday afternoon fire in a
storage building. The storage
building housed contaminated
reactor parts and equipment at
the Virginia Electric and Power
Company facility 50 miles south
east of Richmond.
Officials said smoke carried
low levels of radiation into the
atmosphere and water con
taminated in extinguishing the
fire ran into the James River, but
neither posed any danger.
NRC spokesman Ken Clark
said the levels of contamination
were well within federal safety
standards.
He said the radioactivity that
escaped into the atmosphere
was 0.0025 percent of the limit
the government considers safe.
He said the contaminated water
contained .02 percent of the
allowable limit of radioactivity.
Vepco spokesman Dennis
Hedgepeth said the storage
building is not connected to the
reactor buildings, and neither of
the facility’s two reactors was
affected.
Hedgepeth said Vepco offi
cials thirjjk the fire may have
been caused by an electric heater
used to dry mildly radioactive
parts. He said about 30 percent
of the storage building was se
verely damaged, but no specific
damage estimate had been
made.
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It also woufo three of every five violent crimes
d resource w are committed by people who
m that forces! are strangers to their victims,
loan low-intf and men are more likely to be
idvantaged ffvictims than women, a Justice
department study reported
Sunday.
clutch of W The department’s National
s — include Crime Survey reached its con-
lavid Pryor ; l dusion by examining data for
las Eagletoicjf rape, robbery and assault from
f a letter®df 1973 through 1979. It said an
leinanding estimated 23.4 million of these
emergencyf! crimes were committed in the
e made avail'" United States during this period
could notot®v —an average of about 3 million
re and per year.
-oduction-bs The study did not cover mur
der and kidnapping.
The survey said men were
evelopmen 1 three times more likely than
jartments 1 women to be victims of violent
weekpreda c-ime at t he hands of strangers,
ouldbeunlif p sa j c { were more than
twice as likely as whites to be rob-
ock was f'| bed by strangers, but whites
fying befortj were more likely to be victimized
ibcomniit® fi; by simple assault. The likelihood
licted reco'J 0 f rape by strangers was about
1 the niid-f even for both races,
difficult toffl “Americans age 12 and over
>f uncertainj were victims of violent crimes by
sstic and "1 strangers at an average rate of
20 victimizations per 1,000 peo
ple over the 1973-79 period,”
the survey said. “Robbery and
rape were the two violent crimes
most often committed by stran
gers.”
During tha,t, six-ye^t: period,
59 percent of violent, crimes
were by strangers.
In rapes and assaults by stran
gers, the study said, the typical
criminal was a white male over
21 years of age. It said young
assailants did not appear to be
singling out the elderly as vic
tims of robberv and assault.
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