Workers at nuclear facility confined in contaminated room for 3 hours

Workers at nuclear facility confined in contaminated room for 3 hours

Officials from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency bow in apology at a press conference in Tokyo on June 9, 2017. Workers involved in a recent serious plutonium inhalation accident at a nuclear research facility run by the agency were subsequently confined inside the contaminated room for about three hours, the officials said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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