Two TEPCO workers at Fukushima plant found dead

[FBaggins]

Tokyo Electric Power Company has said two employees who had gone missing since the March 11th disaster were found dead at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The bodies of Kazuhiko Kokubo and Yoshiki Terashima, both in their 20s, were found in the basement of the turbine building for the Number 4 reactor on Wednesday. They had been carrying out a regular check-up at the plant.

The chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tsunehisa Katsumata, said in a statement that the company is extremely sorry about losing two young employees who had tried to maintain the plant's safety in the midst of disaster.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/03_11.html

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Natural causes?

Do they suspect foul play?

[FBaggins]

2. I think these are the two that have been missing since the earthquake.

Most of us presumed that they were dead, but they hadn't been found.

Basement of the building might mean that they drowned in the flooding from the tsunami.

[uppityperson]

3. "they died of bleeding from multiple wounds." Looks like tsunami/debris got them. :(

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/82838.html

Two employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. who had been missing since the March 11 quake and tsunami have been found dead at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the utility said Sunday, adding that they died of bleeding from multiple wounds.

The two, who had been inspecting the No. 4 reactor's turbine building, are believed to have died around 4 p.m. on March 11, after a massive tsunami triggered by the 2:46 p.m. quake struck the site.

It is the first time that workers of the firm known as TEPCO have been confirmed to have died at the plant crippled by the magnitude 9.0 quake and tsunami that is continuing to release high-level radiation in Japan's worst nuclear crisis.

The bodies of Kazuhiko Kokubo, 24, and Yoshiki Terashima, 21, were found Wednesday afternoon in a power panel room at the No. 4 unit. Fukushima police conducted autopsies Saturday after radioactive materials were removed from the bodies, the plant operator said....(more)

[kristopher]

4. 7 workers were reported missing after blast at #3

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x638283

[FBaggins]

5. Also true.

Don't remember if any of them were found.