Yellowcake Spill near Swift Current, SK - but it's low risk!

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Highway remains closed following uranium spill near Swift Current, Sask.

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RCMP says traffic has been blocked off, traffic in area being rerouted

The Canadian Press Posted: Jan 12, 2016 6:45 AM CT| Last Updated: Jan 12, 2016 6:45 AM CT

(Neil Cochrane/CBC)

A stretch of highway near Swift Current in southwest Saskatchewan has been cordoned off after a tractor-trailer carrying 63 drums of uranium concentrate bound for a refinery rolled, spilling a small part of its load.

RCMP have notified residents within a 1.6-kilometre radius of what happened, but say an evacuation was deemed unnecessary because there were no homes downwind from the scene.

The rollover happened around noon on Monday on Highway 4, about 10 kilometres north of Swift Current.

Capt. Greg Campbell of the Swift Current fire department says there was a minor crack in the container carrying the yellowcake, which has a low level of radioactivity, but the spill is mostly contained.

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