U.N. panel says Japan nuclear workers may have got higher radiation: report

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U.N. panel says Japan nuclear workers may have got higher radiation: report

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-panel-says-japan-nuclear-workers-may-104838934--finance.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Jdd1.NTVkDCg_fL5oGCByw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-10-12T104838Z_1_CBRE99B0U2F00_RTROPTP_2_CNEWS-US-JAPAN-FUKUSHIMA-RADIATION.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="View of building of TEPCO's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is seen from a bus during a media tour at the plant in Fukushima prefecture" align="left" title="View of building of TEPCO's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is seen from a bus during a media tour at the plant in Fukushima prefecture" border="0" /></a>TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese authorities may have underestimated by 20 percent the radiation doses workers got in the initial phase of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese newspaper reported on Saturday, citing a U.N. panel. A big earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 damaged the power station north of Tokyo, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co, causing three partial reactor meltdowns. The company has struggled to contain leaking radiation since then. The U.N. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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