Tokyo, Mar 24(ANI): Three men have been hurt by radiation while working at Japan's quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, with two being taken to the hospital after developing skins lesions on their legs.
Officials said that the three men were working in the basement of the reactor 3 when they were exposed to between 170-180 millisievierts of radiation, News.com.au reports.
The nuclear power plant was crippled by fire and explosions after the March 11 9.0-magnitude earthquake and a 46-foot (14 metre) tsunami.
Reactors 4, 5 and 6 had been shut down prior to the earthquake for planned maintenance.
The remaining reactors were shut down automatically after the earthquake, but the subsequent tsunami flooded the plant, knocking out emergency generators needed to run pumps, which cool and control the reactors.
The Japanese authorities had rated the crisis as a level 5 on the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale.
Level 5 is used to describe an accident with "wider consequences".
The crisis is on a par with 1979's Three Mile Island nuclear accident in the US, and two levels below Ukraine's 1986 Chernobyl disaster. (ANI)
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