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An explosion ripped through a smelter at a Russian nuclear power plant outside the northern city of St. Petersburg but radiation levels were normal,
Russia's nuclear agency said Friday.
Rosenergoatom said three people were badly burned in the blast Thursday at the Leningrad nuclear power plant. The smelter was located in the second
unit, which had been shut down for major repairs in July, the agency said. A unit generally contains a reactor.
"There were no violations of safety levels and operating conditions of the energy units of the Leningrad nuclear plant," Rosenergoatom said in a
statement.
The RIA-Novosti news agency quoted the Emergency Situations Ministry as saying that the blast occurred in an industrial zone in the city of Sosnovy
Bor. The ministry said that two of the three people injured had burns over 90 percent of their bodies.
