Irradiated workers hospitalized

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken on March 25, 2011, shows the Fukushima Medical University hospital in Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, where two of the three workers exposed to high-level radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant were hospitalized the previous day. The three men in their 20s and 30s, who were laying cables underground at the No. 3 reactor, were exposed to water containing radioactive materials 10,000 times the normal level.

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