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Tuesday
Aug022011

Two Fukushima Daiichi workers drowned by tsunami had been ordered to inspect basement

The Mainichi Daily News reports that two Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant workers, whose drowned bodies were discovered on March 30th, nearly three weeks after the earthquake-triggered tsunami inundated the northeastern Japan atomic site, had been ordered by a Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) supervisor down to the turbine building basement of Unit 4 to check for leaks from pipes, despite warnings that large tsunamis were inbound.