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Worker exposed to 1,000 times higher-than-normal radiation.

Publication: Japan Weekly Monitor
Publication Date: 24-DEC-01
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
TOKYO, Dec. 21 Kyodo

A 34-year-old company employee was exposed to 1,000 times the maximum annual permissible level of radiation at a Tokyo hospital Friday while setting up medical equipment, the science and technology ministry said.

The man, a worker of an affiliate of the medical instrument sales company Toshiba Medical Systems Co., was hospitalized after being exposed to an estimated 1 sievert of...

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