Tokyo Electric Power Corporation (TEPCO)
has said a second female employee has been exposed to radiation
exceeding the legal limit of five millisieverts at the
earthquake-cum-tsunami hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The Kyodo news agency quoted the utility as saying that the woman in
her 40s has been exposed to a total of 7.49 millisieverts of radiation
when she was working at the six-reactor complex. TEPCO also said another of its female employees was exposed to radiation over three times the limit, at the plant.
Earlier this month, the mother of one of the workers at the plant had revealed her son and his colleagues believe that they had been exposed to high levels of radiation and would die from radiation sickness "within weeks" or "cancer in the long-term." ANI
