Nuclear experts also noted that North Korea could be facing similar technical difficulties as Iran in operating the equipment, which spins at supersonic speeds and can easily break apart or leak uranium gas if its parts aren't balanced and fortified with high-end metals.
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The plant has been shut since last week following complaints of a gas leak.
Apr 1993: Radioactive gas leak caused by explosion at secretive Tomsk-7 Siberian nuke facility.
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Nearby houses were evacuated because of a subsequent gas leak, CNN affiliate WNDU reported.
Dozens of homes were evacuated and trains cancelled because of a gas leak in Portsmouth.
In 1984, a gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant near Bhopal, India, killed nearly 4, 500 people.
The eventual number of people who died in the Lake Nyos gas leak was put at more than 1, 700.
There are concerns in India over the company's links to the firm behind the Bhopal gas leak disaster in 1984.
The pressure in the capped-off well could blow a new hole in it, letting oil and gas leak out through the seabed.
It was signed into law by former President Ronald Reagan after the infamous Union Carbide pesticide factory gas leak in Bhopal, India.
The injured number more than 80, and the blast, thought to have been caused by a gas leak, also damaged homes nearby.
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It all stems from a gas leak at a chemical plant in Rouen, which is more than 60 miles north west of Paris.
Union Carbide, a chemicals firm, has a link to information on the deadly Bhopal gas leak in India on its home page, for example.
Last August a gas leak at the Amuay refinery in western Venezuela led to an explosion and fire that burned for days and killed more than 40.
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Prohibition notices were served on the North West Hutton installation after inspectors went on board the platform, 300 miles north east of Aberdeen, to investigate a gas leak.
Records showed the mains had consistently been classified as a low gas leak risk and there were no reported leaks within recent history that would have required repairs.
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The gas leak was originally thought to have been made safe an hour after the incident began, but engineers asked for more time to check houses in the village.
The chief of regional police said that the explosion has caused a separate gas leak in a building adjacent to the building that was the epicenter of the morning explosion.
Human rights and environmental pressure groups have campaigned against BP, Dow Chemical - which now owns the firm behind the Bhopal gas leak disaster in 1984 - and Rio Tinto.
Two years ago, residents in nearby Culver City evacuated their homes one night after a mysterious gas leak, prompting PXP to voluntarily shut down its operations until the county finishes an environmental review.
The company announced improved first-quarter refining margins and said it had made significant progress in efforts to stem a natural-gas leak on its Elgin field platform in the British sector of the North Sea.
Mohammed Youssef, a pilot of another balloon which was in the air nearby at the time, told the Guardian newspaper that the fire started when it was 3m from the ground and was caused by a gas leak.
One of the worst environmental accidents so far, at the Union Carbide factory in India where thousands of people were killed by a leak of poisonous gas in 1984, made companies everywhere think again about how to manage crises on such a scale.
Mr. Collins put in a gas-leak detector and consults his wife before eating leftovers.
But a bigger worry is that the gas itself may leak.
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Used fuel that has been cooled in a spent fuel pool for at least five years can be put into a container called a cask and surrounded with inert gas, providing leak-tight containment, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Quite a few officially confirmed nuclear incidents occurred in the past few years in Japan, some of them caused nuclear-polluted gas and liquids to leak.
Pipelines and gas wells will inevitably leak or rupture, risking lives and fouling the environment where people live and further polluting the air we breathe and the water we drink.
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As a result of such shoddy workmanship and incompetence, at least 10 percent of all natural gas transported by Soviet gas lines is reported to leak out of the system.
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