...of the bombing of Nagasaki...
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=308131
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V20E41209
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at 07:12 JST
"TSUGURA � Four workers were killed and seven others
severely burned by a leak of super-heated
non-radioactive steam at Mihama nuclear power plant in
Fukui Prefecture on Monday, in the latest blow to the
country's troubled nuclear industry.
"No radioactive leak took place, according to the
government's Nuclear and Industry Safety Agency and
Kansai Electric Power Co, the owner of the plant.
Doctors at a hospital in the Fukui city of Tsuruga
said they did not know what caused the deaths of the
four. Witnesses at the plant said the victims had
severe burns with their skin and clothes on fire...
"...Fukui prefectural police said they are
investigating the incident as a case of professional
negligence resulting in injury and death. They said
they set up an investigation headquarters at Tsuruga
Police Station and assigned 110 investigators to the
case.
"The latest incident is expected to deal a serious
blow to the nuclear industry in Japan, which depends
on nuclear power to supply 40% of its electricity. It
is also expected to further heighten public distrust
of the country's nuclear industry, which is reeling
from past accidents and scandals, such as cover-ups by
utility companies of safety violations at their
reactors...
"...no evacuation order was issued to residents
nearby, unlike Japan's worst nuclear accident on Sept
30, 1999, at a uranium processing plant in Tokaimura,
Ibaraki Prefecture, where two employees died from
exposure to extremely high doses of radiation, and 663
others were injured from lower amounts of radiation.
In the 1999 nuclear disaster, about 310,000 residents
living within a 10-kilometer radius from the plant
were ordered to stay indoors while evacuation orders
were issued to residents within a 350-meter radius
from the plant..."
Article much longer; some interesting comments posted
as well.
Debbi
Bit In Her Teeth Now Maru
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