(Middletown) -- A top emergency management official wants to know why it took several hours for county and state officials to be notified of a contamination incident over the weekend at Three Mile Island. According to Exelon Nuclear, low levels of radiation were detected in TMI's Unit One reactor building around 4 p.m. Saturday. As many as 175 workers were removed from the building and checked for exposure, but Exelon says all were well within acceptable limits. Dauphin County EMA Director Stephen Shaver says his agency was told about the incident at 9:30 p.m. -- five and a-half hours after it happened -- by Middletown Mayor Robert Reid. Exelon then issued a news release shortly before midnight. The company says the incident posed no danger to the public. The problem occurred as workers were preparing to install the new steam generators at TMI. Investigators from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have converged on the plant to probe Saturday's incident.

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