Fukushima Nuclear Plant Worker

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  Fukushima Nuclear Plant Worker Detects High Radiation Levels In Nasal Passage

  This serves as a reminder of the risks associated with the ongoing cleanup efforts at the facility, which was severely damaged in 2011.

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  Japan Says Workers Stole Possibly Radioactive Metal From Fukushima

  Construction workers stole and sold potentially radioactive scrap metal from near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, the Japanese environment ministry said on Thursday.

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  Japan Acknowledges First Radiation Death Among Fukushima Plant Workers

  Japan has acknowledged for the first time that a worker at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami more than seven years ago, died from radiation exposure.

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  First Fukushima Worker Diagnosed With Radiation-Linked Cancer: Japan Official

  A former Fukushima nuclear plant worker has been diagnosed with radiation-related cancer, Japanese authorities said Tuesday, in the first such confirmation more than four years after the worst atomic accident in a generation.

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  4 Years After Nuclear Disaster, Fukushima Workers Get Own Rest Area

  Tokyo Electric Power Co., the utility that runs the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant, has opened a rest area and canteen for cleanup workers, more than four years after the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

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  Japan Nuclear Plant Worker Dies After Falling Into Tank

  A worker at Japan's wrecked nuclear power plant died after falling into a water storage tank, the latest in a growing number of accidents at the site still struggling to clean up the mess from the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

• Fukushima Construction Workers Hurt: Operator

  Three workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant were injured today, including one seriously injured, when steel construction material collapsed on them.

• Fukushima workers evacuated as small tsunami hits Japan

  Workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant were evacuated when a small tsunami hit Japan after a powerful undersea quake Saturday, highlighting the continued threat to the area devastated by the 2011 quake-tsunami.

• Fukushima operator says six workers contaminated in latest leak

  Six workers at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant were exposed to leaking radioactive water after one of them mistakenly removed a pipe to a water treatment system, the plant's operator said on Wednesday.

• Overflowing tank cause of new leak at Fukushima

  Another day, another radioactive-water spill. The operator of the meltdown-plagued Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant says at least 430 liters (110 gallons) spilled when workers overfilled a storage tank without a gauge that could have warned them of the danger.

• New radiation spike found near Fukushima nuclear plant water tanks

  Tokyo Electric Power, the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, said today that a patrol of workers had found a new area of high radiation near tanks used to store contaminated water.

• 2,000 workers at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant face cancer risk

  Around 2,000 people who have worked at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant face a heightened risk of thyroid cancer, its operator said.

• Japan earthquake: Fukushima workers move to safety after tsunami warning

  Workers at two nuclear plants in Fukushima reached safe positions inside the plants after a tsunami warning was issued after a strong earthquake struck northeastern Japan, a spokesman at Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said on Friday.

• Japan's nuclear plant workers face stigma, say doctors

  A growing number of Japanese workers who are risking their health to shut down the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are suffering from depression, anxiety about the future and a loss of motivation, say two doctors who visit them regularly.

• Six more workers may exceed Japan's radiation limit

  Six more workers at Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant may have exceeded the radiation exposure limit, bringing the total to eight, the government said Monday.The health and labour ministry released the preliminary results of tests on how much radiation they had been exposed to as they worked at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.Three men are c...