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Article: NUCLEAR REACTION SICKENS 19; ACCIDENTAL RADIATION RELEASE MAY HAVE SUBSIDED, JAPANESE OFFICIALS SAY.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- October 2, 1999
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Byline: Sharon Moshavi The Boston Globe
In what experts call the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, dangerous levels of radiation leaked from a uranium processing plant, creating an uncontrolled nuclear reaction that exposed 19 people to radiation poisoning and forced the evacuation of hundreds living near the factory.
Hours after the leak, radiation levels immediately outside the plant, in the town of Tokaimura, were as much as 10,000 times the normal level, and 10 times the normal rate at a distance of 1-1/4 miles from the plant, according to government officials.
This morning, officials said the nuclear chain reaction appeared to ...