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'Nervous and rushed': Massive plant cleanup exposes workers to high radiation and stress

by MARI YAMAGUCHI
Mon, March 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM EDT

OKUMA, Japan (AP) — "The plant's radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown 14 years ago Tuesday. Workers walk around in many areas wearing only surgical masks and regular clothes.

"It's a different story for those who enter the reactor buildings, including the three damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. They must use maximum protection — full facemasks with filters, multi-layered gloves and socks, shoe covers, hooded hazmat coveralls and a waterproof jacket, and a helmet.

"As workers remove melted fuel debris from the reactors in a monumental nuclear cleanup effort that could take more than a century, they are facing both huge amounts of psychological stress and dangerous levels of radiation."

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Yahoo News · 'Nervous and rushed': Massive Fukushima plant cleanup exposes workers to high radiation and stressBy MARI YAMAGUCHI
Mar 11, 2025, 02:39 AM·Public·Web
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