TOKYO: Investigators milled around a rusty 30cm steel pipe at a nuclear plant in western Japan yesterday trying to determine what caused it to rupture, causing the deadliest accident in Japanese nuclear industry history.
As they gathered evidence that could lead to charges of negligence, the government ordered stepped-up checks on pipes such as the one that burst at the Kansai Electric plant at Mihama, gushing super-heated steam that killed four workers.
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