TOKYO - Tuesday's serious radiation exposure accident at a nuclear research facility in eastern Japan occurred when workers were handling a metal plutonium container that had been kept sealed for 26 years and never once opened for periodic checks, officials of the Nuclear Regulation Authority said Thursday.
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