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Four laboratory workers receive minor radiation

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RICHLAND – Four Pacific Northwest National Laboratory workers received minor radioactive contamination Thursday while doing research in a lab, a spokesman said.

The workers were evaluated at the scene, “cleaned up and sent home,” said lab spokesman Greg Koller. They were not taken to a hospital.

“This kind of radioactivity does not penetrate the skin,” Koller said.

The workers had been testing the accuracy of radiation detection monitors, Koller said, and had been using a sealed radioactive source, which leaked.