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MADRID-Up to 800 people are being examined for contamination after a leak of radioactive material at a nuclear plant in northeast Spain last November, the nuclear watchdog said on Monday.The Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) said it had so far examined 579 out of between 700 and 800 people who had been through the Asco I nuclear plant in Tarragona since the leak and none had been found to have been contaminated. The CSN said it was considering sanctions against the plant's operators for not providing it with enough information about the leak, which it considered to be more serious than originally classified.The CSN was not advised until April 4 of the leak, which occurred during refueling at the 1,000 megawatt Endesa-owned Plant.The leak was first made public by environmental group Greenpeace on April 5 and confirmed shortly afterwards by the CSN, which sent inspectors to the site.In a statement the CSN said it had raised its rating of the leak to 2 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) for "inadequate control of nuclear material and for supplying incomplete and deficient information to the regulator".The CSN said it would demand those responsible be found."From the sequence of events it may be deduced that the operator knew on April 9 that the information on total activity spilled was not correct and not forwarded to the CSN," it said.To read more go to:
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