SAGA, Might 12 (News On Japan) –
A male employee cleansing Reactor Unit 3 on the Genkai Nuclear Plant in Saga Prefecture was discovered to have suffered inside radiation publicity, marking the primary such confirmed case at Kyushu Electrical, the corporate introduced on Sunday.
The incident occurred on Might tenth throughout common inspections on the Genkai plant. The employee, employed by a companion firm, was cleansing the reactor vessel lid when a radiation verify performed earlier than leaving the managed space detected contamination close to his face.
Additional measurements led to the conclusion on Might eleventh that the employee had been internally uncovered to a small quantity of radioactive materials.
The publicity degree was measured at 0.02 millisieverts—about one p.c of the annual common pure radiation dose of two.1 millisieverts. The employee is just not experiencing any well being points.
That is the primary time Kyushu Electrical has confirmed an incident involving inside radiation publicity.
Two different employees who had been cleansing the lid alongside him weren’t uncovered. The corporate is at the moment investigating the trigger.
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