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Workers at Ibaraki nuclear facility confined inside contaminated room for 3 hours

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But the facility operator has since said a subsequent check by the National Institute of Radiological Sciences has found no plutonium in the lungs of the worker in his 50s. It has not ruled out the possibility that what was actually detected was radioactive substance left on the worker's body after decontamination.

Why is it that my BS meter is going crazy right now?

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From this........

In the case of the worker in his 50s, 22,000 becquerels of plutonium-239 were found in his lungs. Up to 5,600 to 14,000 becquerels of the radioactive substance were found in the lungs of three other workers. The facility operator determined that the four had suffered internal radiation exposure.

To this....

But the facility operator has since said a subsequent check by the National Institute of Radiological Sciences has found no plutonium in the lungs of the worker in his 50s. It has not ruled out the possibility that what was actually detected was radioactive substance left on the worker's body after decontamination.

It's a miracle!

No doubt the records are already in the furnace.

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Should I open it, yeah go ahead its not a big deal, remember Fukushima, nothing happened there, radiation is good, it's  just the media looking for a good story. 

Hey I have an idea let's do like what happened in Fukushima, raise the limit ceiling again, this way the worker and media will say no one was exposed at the level of exposure and blame the slight exposure on something else, perhaps the masks...

Never mind the 2 or 3 headed lizards or snakes, it's just normal natural evolution, or forget about the radioactive readings, its only attributed to in correctly calibration of equipment prior to the ceiling levels that were raised still triggering positive exposure limits.  The fault will never be on the owners to blame in any case. 

 re" Radioactive materials were found in the nostrils of the worker in his 50s and the other workers even though they had worn masks that covered their mouths and noses"

And if push comes to shove, blame the worker for wearing the incorrect masks.

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" said later Friday that a subsequent check on the worker thought to have suffered the most serious exposure has raised the possibility that his radiation doses were far less than previously thought...."

Yeah, now that it's international news and the agency a world-wide laughing stock, they've had time to try and fudge the records. Except this additional news of their blundering doesn't help their previous lies.

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Science minister Hirokazu Matsuno said at a press conference earlier in the day that a specially appointed team within the ministry would ask agency President Toshio Kodama about Tuesday's accident at the agency's Oarai Research & Development Center in the coastal town of Oarai.

So again a "Specially" appointed team? There is not a stand by team specially trained to whip into action. After all the previous accidents the best the can do is appoint a group of beauracracts to fog the facts and tell us it's no big deal. Really is a circus.

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It took a little time, but the overall clean-up has begun. I expect they will whitewash the walls too while they are at it.

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Perfect example of the nuclear village BS cover-up as usual, that workers cannot be contaminated bow because it does not look good for our nuclear reboot in progress.

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marcelito

If you don't work for the government, you should.

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and the incompetence just keeps continuing on like a soap opera...

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