Workers used buckets at Tokaimura plant for 7-8 years

Workers used buckets at Tokaimura plant for 7-8 years

MITO, Japan - The photo shows a stainless steel bucket identical to the ones used for mixing a uranium solution at a uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, where Japan's worst-ever nuclear accident took place on Sept. 30. Plant officials, exhibiting the bucket at a press conference at the prefecture government office on Oct. 5, admitted such buckets were used in violation of safety regulations for 7-8 years.

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