Worker at Japan nuclear plant dies

A contract worker in his 60s died on his second day of work at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant on Saturday. It's the first reported death at the power plant following the quake and tsunami.

The plant operator TEPCO said harmful levels of radiation were not detected in the worker's body. Officials say the worker was carrying equipment when he collapsed and died later in hospital, but they don't know the cause of his death.

The man had been wearing a radiation protection suit, mask and gloves while working at the plant's waste disposal building, which stores radioactive-contaminated water.

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