‘Nervous and rushed’: Massive Fukushima plant cleanup work involves high radiation and stress.

For those who enter the reactor buildings, including the three damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, they must use maximum protection — full facemasks with filters, multi-layered gloves and socks, shoe covers, hooded hazmat coveralls and a waterproof jacket, and a helmet.

As workers remove melted fuel debris from the reactors in a monumental nuclear cleanup effort that could take more than a century, they are facing both huge amounts of psychological stress and dangerous levels of radiation.

https://apnews.com/article/japan-fukushima-plant-radiation-safety-4efe204a48f952137cac5a44b41f93ae

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