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commuter trains smashed into each
other during rush hour yesterday,
killing 26 passengers and injuring
160 on the same rail line as another
fatal crash two years ago.
Ambulance and fire crews, police
and rail workers swarmed around
the overturned, mangled rail cars for
hours, locating and freeing injured
survivors in the smoldering wreck
age near the Ladbroke Grove resi
dential area in west London.
Many passengers sobbed as they
described frantically crawling out
broken windows after Britain’s
worst train accident in more than a
decade.
“I was thinking, ‘God, please
don’t let me die,”’ Stuart Allen, a pas
senger, said. “You’ve got flames.
You’ve got smoke- You’ve got a big
bang. You’ve just got to think the
worst.”
Police said one badly damaged
car could contain more bodies, but
called off the search for more victims
until daylight today.
The cause of the collision was
not immediately known, but
health and safety officials began
an investigation.
Great Western, one of the train
companies involved in Tuesday’s
disaster, had been fined $2.47 mil
lion for “dereliction of duty” in con
nection with the crash in 1997 that
killed seven people and injured 150
others.
“1 felt an almighty bang,” pas
senger David Taylor said of yes
terday’s crash, which occurred at
8:11 a.m.
“I looked up, and I could see the
front of the coach was on fire. There
were balls of flames coming down
both sides.”
Emergency crews said 18 people
were seriously injured and 124 trans
ported to area hospitals.
“Injuries are among the worst I
have seen in my professional ca
reer,” Robin Touquet, an accident
and emergency consultant at St.
Mary’s Hospital said.
“I could see people with blood
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of people were burned badly on their
faces and hands. They were shout
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ly determine the total number of
passengers aboard the trains.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Radioactive wa
ter leaked inside a South Korean nuclear power
plant during repair work, exposing 22 workers to
small amounts of radiation, the government said
yesterday.
About 12 gallons of so-called “heavy water”
was leaked during the accident Monday evening
at a nuclear plant in Wolsung, 190 miles south
east of the capital Seoul, the Science and Tech
nology Ministry said in a statement.
It said the radioactive water was contained
inside the plant and did not escape into the
environment.
The mishap followed neighboring Japan’s
worst nuclear accident last week, in which at
least 49 people were exposed to radiation.
The town of Tokaimura was temporarily
closed down amid heightened fears about the
safety of Japan’s nuclear plants.
Those exposed to radiation in the Wolsung ac
cident were employees of the state Korea Electric
Power Corp., which runs three nuclear reactors
in Wolsung. The Canadian-designed reactors use
heavy water to generate electricity.
Heavy water behaves like ordinary water, but
it contains a heavier version of hydrogen.
It is not naturally radioactive, but as it cir
culates in pipes it can pick up traces of ra
dioactive metals.
So when workers handle the water, they rou
tinely treat it as radioactive.
The leak occurred during repair work on a
cooling water pump at Wolsung-3, which has a
capacity of 700 megawatts and started commer
cial operations on July 1, 1998. It was the first
scheduled maintenance work on that reactor
since it opened.
Two workers were checking pipe connec
tions at the time of the leak and 20 others were
dispatched to clean the area and were exposed
to radioactive gas emanating from the water,
Chung Kisang, chief nuclear technician at Ko
rea Electric said.
“The amount of radiation that affected the
workers is negligible,” Chung said. “It is not
harmful to the workers.”
He said the workers were exposed to radiation
equivalent to four X-rays, but were not injured
and were sent home.
A. David Rossin, former U.S. assistant secre
tary of energy for nuclear energy, said yesterday
that based on early reports of the Korean acci
dent, “chances are the expo- 5
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An investigation was under
way. In 1984, 23.5 tons of heavy
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