Japanese Workers Hospitalized for Excessive Radiation Exposure, page 1

Yet more tragedy surrounding the nuclear disaster in Japan..

Two workers at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant have been hospitalized for radiation exposure suffered on Thursday. They are among those frantically trying to get critical cooling functions restored to damaged reactors and fuel ponds. Radiation also continues to be detected above normal levels as far as 300 kilometers south of the facility, which was knocked out of commission by a huge quake and tsunami nearly two weeks ago. Excessive radiation exposure The hospitalized workers were exposed to excessive radiation exposure following an accident Thursday. reporters that two of three men working together in the damaged Number 3 reactor's turbine building slipped into water and did not realize they had been exposed to high levels of radiation until they noticed a rash on their skin. radiation until they noticed a rash on their skin. The two are said to be suffering from beta ray burns.