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Nuclear physics lab continued experiment even after radioactive leak
Scientists at a nuclear physics laboratory in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, ignored the ringing of an alarm that radioactive substances were leaking and continued with the experiment that triggered the problem, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency said May 25. (May 26) [more]
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