Japan Nuclear Crisis: Worker At Damaged Power Plant Dies

[Keith Bee]

Source: Huffington Post

TOKYO — A man died on his second day working at Japan's tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant Saturday, and the plant operator said harmful levels of radiation were not detected in his body.

The contract worker in his 60s was the first person to die at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan since the March 11 quake and tsunami damaged the facility, causing a string of fires, explosions and radiation leaks in the world's second-worst nuclear accident.

The worker was carrying equipment when he collapsed and died later in hospital, said Naoyuki Matsumoto, spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co. The company does not know the cause of his death, Matsumoto said.

The man had been wearing a radiation protection suit, mask and gloves while working at the plant's waste disposal building, which stores radioactive-contaminated water that has leaked from the tsunami-crippled reactors.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/14/japan-nuclear-crisis-worker-at-plant-dies_n_861943.html

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It'd be useful to know the worker's age and general health, but nowhere in the article is either one mentioned.