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TEPCO Workers Remove Wrong Pipe Get Splashed With Radioactive Water

Posted by samzenpus on from the how-bad-is-it? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A day after TEPCO workers mistakenly turned off cooling pumps serving the spent pool at reactor #4 at the crippled nuclear plant comes a new accident — 6 workers apparently removed the wrong pipe from a primary filtration system and were doused with highly radioactive water. They were wearing protection yet such continuing mishaps and 'small mistakes' are becoming a pattern at the facility."

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  1. Oblig by binarylarry · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://imgur.com/5fYFq3P

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  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Funny

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  3. Re:fried fish by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Opening the wrong pipe mistakenly believing it to be a different one is a 'small mistake'/mishap.

    That's one small mistake for man, one giant leap for mutantkind

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