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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I remember watching a documentary on Chernobyl where German's in a nuclear power plant couldn't get past the radiation detectors to get to their jobs because of the spread of radiation from Chernobyl, because nobody knew about the accident at the time, the German plant went into shutdown because they thought they were leaking.
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It wasn't in Germany, it was in Sweden, where a workers couldn't enter the plant because he kept setting off the detectors.
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Originally Posted by wikipedia
The initial evidence that a major release of radioactive material was affecting other countries came not from Soviet sources, but from Sweden, where on the morning of 28 April[65] workers at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant (approximately 1,100 km (680 mi) from the Chernobyl site) were found to have radioactive particles on their clothes.[66] It was Sweden's search for the source of radioactivity, after they had determined there was no leak at the Swedish plant, that at noon on 28 April led to the first hint of a serious nuclear problem in the western Soviet Union.
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