2023-12-15 03:43:03
A worker on the dismantling site of the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (north-eastern Japan) was the victim of radioactive contamination on the face, according to the plant operator, where a similar incident had already occurred in October .
The latest incident must have occurred on Monday when this worker removed following work the full mask which protected him and on which radioactive materials had been deposited, Tepco explained Thursday in a press release.
Examinations of his entire body showed that his internal contamination did not exceed international safety standards in this area, and the employee’s state of health was immediately stable, Tepco assured. Additional analysis results will be known in January.
The group reminded its employees in Fukushima to always clean their masks very carefully before removing them.
At the end of October, four other workers on the site were splashed by water containing radioactive substances and two of them were hospitalized as a precaution.
Medical examinations showed that the radiation exposure of these two hospitalized people had not exceeded the safety standards in force at the plant site, Tepco also announced Thursday. “No health problems” were detected for these two employees, according to the group.
The cores of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant melted following the giant tsunami of March 2011 devastated the site, causing the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
Several thousand people still work daily at Fukushima Daiichi to carry out complex cleanup and dismantling operations that are expected to take several more decades.
Tepco and the Japanese government began at the end of August the very gradual release into the sea of 1.3 million m3 of treated water from the plant, which had been used in particular to cool the cores of the three reactors which melted following the disaster.
This process was validated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but it caused a diplomatic crisis between Japan and China, which has suspended all its imports of Japanese seafood products since the end of August, followed by by Russia.
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