Japan Acknowledges First Radiation Death Among Fukushima Workers

Japan Acknowledges First Radiation Death Among Fukushima Workers
Japan has acknowledged for the first time that a worker at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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TOKYO—Japan has acknowledged for the first time that a worker at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami more than seven years ago, died from radiation exposure.

A 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck in March 2011, triggering a tsunami that killed some 18,000 people and the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl 25 years earlier.