One Dead, Three Injured After Gas Leak at Spanish Nuclear Plant

One Dead, Three Injured After Gas Leak at Spanish Nuclear Plant
Entrance to Asco nuclear power plant in Asco, Catalonia, Spain, in August 2014. Google Maps/Screenshot via NTD
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MADRID—One person has died and three have been taken to hospital after a carbon dioxide leak at the Asco nuclear power plant in the Spanish region of Catalonia, local emergency services said on Wednesday.

A fault in the plant’s fire prevention system caused the gas leak, which was not linked to any radioactive material, the regional fire service posted on Twitter.