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Tainted Water at 2 Reactors Increases Alarm for Japanese

Posted March 28, 2011 9:12 AM

From NYT > Science:

Japan's troubled effort to contain the nuclear contamination crisis at its stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant suffered a setback on Sunday when alarmingly high radiation levels were discovered in a flooded area inside the complex, raising new questions about how and when recovery workers could resume their tasks.

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Re: Tainted Water at 2 Reactors Increases Alarm for Japanese

03/29/2011 12:40 AM

".. 19 workers had been exposed to radiation levels of 100 millisieverts .."

So, not much at all, not even dangerous and that's for workers inside the plant. The media will need to keep working hard to beat this story up.

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