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Five critically hurt at Japan nuclear plant Five people suffered heart and lung failure after steam leaked at a Japanese nuclear plant Monday, media reports said.
The trade and industry ministry said about 10 people had been taken to hospital and some were critically injured. It initially said there had been fatalities, but later said it had not confirmed any dead so far.
Eleven people were injured, the local authority said, but said there were no leaks of radiation outside the plant.
Public broadcaster NHK television said there was also no radiation leak within the facility, which housed turbines for a reactor at the Mihama nuclear plant in Fukui prefecture, 320 km (200 miles) northwest of Tokyo.
The leak took place at around 3:30 p.m. (0630 GMT)
Japan's worst previous accident at a nuclear facility took place at a uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, a town north of Tokyo, in October 1999, when an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction was triggered.
Two workers died and hundreds of residents were exposed to radiation. |
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