A worker reported to the onsite office saying he felt unwell. He was transported to Iwaki hospital and died soon after arriving. TEPCO has given no further details about what kind of work he was doing or his cause of death.
On the same day dust monitoring at monitoring post 2 alarmed then went back down to normal. TEPCO is trying to dismiss it as being caused by “noise”. They also reported no work at unit 1 was underway at the time and that monitoring posts 1 and 3 did not alarm. Other incidents later found to be significant included brief and isolated monitoring alarms.
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