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A replica of the lead plate used by Build-Up workers to cover their dosimeters, reconstructed based on responses from the workers. (Toshio Tada) by Mitsuru Obe and Phred Dvorak / Wall Street Journal / July 23, 2012 / Over the weekend, a subcontractor that worked at the devastated Fukushima ...
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Diagram of lead cover on dosimeter from Asahi via RT / July 22, 2012 / A company charged with decontaminating the devastated Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant encouraged its workers to falsely lower their radiation dosimeter readings by covering the devices with lead, according to a leaked tap ...
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via SecurityManagement.com / June 19, 2012 / After the earthquake and tsunami that damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, Sean Bonner and many others recognized a need for publicly available, accurate, and detailed radiation data. He used the online fundraising Web site Kickstarter to he ...
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MarketWatch / June 27, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, said Wednesday record amounts of radiation had been detected in the basement of reactor No. 1, further hampering clean-up operations. Tepco took samples from the basement after lo ...
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via Guardian.co.uk / March 28, 2012 One of Japan's crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and much less water to cool it than officials estimated, according to an internal examination that renews doubts about the plant's stability. A tool equipped with a tiny vide ...
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