DaimlerChrysler Employees Exposed to Radiation

From WTOL News (Toledo, OH), August 14, 2005:

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA (AP) -- Federal officials are investigating how a damaged nuclear gauge released low-levels of radiation at the DaimlerChrysler Foundry in Indianapolis in late July.

Several workers were exposed to low levels of radiation July 29th when a four-inch cylinder overheated. A Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman says the overheated cylinder caused part of a lead shield around the radioactive cesium core to melt and shift.

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