(1)4 dead, 7 injured in nuke plant steam leak accident

(1)4 dead, 7 injured in nuke plant steam leak accident

OSAKA, Japan - Hiroshi Matsumura (R), managing director of Kansai Electric Power Co., briefs reporters about a steam leakage accident at the company's Mihama Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture at the company's head office in Osaka's Kita Ward on Aug. 9. Four workers died and seven others were injured after high-temperature steam leaked from one of the reactors at the plant.

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