| inbluevt | Date: Wednesday, 2013/08/14, 6:02 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Fukushima nuclear power plant: Officials say they don't know how 10 workers at the plant were
sprayed with radioactive water recently.
After alarming reports last month revealed that hundreds of tons of contaminated water were being released into the ocean every day, more problems have arisen at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Ten workers at the disaster-ridden plant were exposed to radioactive material after being sprayed by contaminated mist. How the mist, which is used to cool some of the building, became contaminated is still a mystery.
Tokyo Electric Power Compnay (TEPCO), the company that operates Fukushima, announced that it believed the misting system was contaminated after detecting traces of radioactive material on some of its workers Monday, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The contamination was detected on Monday, after an alarm from a radiation monitor in front of the comm and center went off. Routine scans of workers after they finished their shifts at the plant Monday also found some traces of radioactive contamination – the largest amount was 19 becquerels per square centimeter – on the surface of the hands and faces of 10 people, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said.
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