Workers evacuated as radioactivity rises in Japan reactor
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Workers were evacuated on Sunday from a reactor building they were working in after high doses of radiation were detected at Japan's stricken nuclear power plant in Fukushima, the plant's operator said.
Tokyo Electric Power Co, the plant's operator, said radiation 10 million times the usual level was detected in water that had accumulated at the No.2 reactor's turbine housing unit.
An official at TEPCO said workers left the No.2 reactor's turbine housing unit to prevent exposure to radiation.
(Reporting by Chizu Nomiyama, writing by Shinichi Saoshiro)
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That TEPCO official has just got to be the most brilliant guy on the planet.
Some other quotes by this nameless official:
“I go to sleep at night to prevent tiredness in the morning.”
“We all have to eat to prevent hunger.”
“When the phone rings it means someone is calling.”
“That quacking sound is more than likely a duck.”
If all the officials at TEPCO are like this guy we all just might as well start walking towards the nearest cliff.
The Japanese Government doesn’t seem to be much better.
Perhaps for the sake of the Japanese people their Government should get some professional nuclear engineers from the US or Russia to take charge of the situation.
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