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Workers at stricken Fukushima nuclear plant evacuate after tsunami warning: operator

Fukushima operator reports leak, says no contamination detected
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Workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeast Japan were evacuated Wednesday after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake off Russia’s far east triggered tsunami warnings around the Pacific.

“We have evacuated all workers and employees” at the Fukushima Daiichi plant — which went into meltdown after being hit by a tsunami in 2011 — a spokeswoman for plant operator TEPCO told AFP, adding that “no abnormality” had been observed at the site.

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