Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) and the Japanese government officials said Monday that two of the utility firm's employees who have been working at the crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant in northeast Japan may have been exposed to radiation exceeding the legal limit of 250 millisieverts.
The two male workers in their 30s and 40s have been working at the radiation-leaking complex since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami triggered the worst nuclear crisis.
A spokesperson for TEPCO said that the two men had been exposed to increasing amounts of radiation since March 11, amassing several hundred milllisieverts. ...
Japan nuclear plant workers likely exposed to radiation far beyond legal limit