Four Japan nuclear plant workers splashed with tainted water

Four workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were splashed with water containing radioactive materials, with two of them hospitalised as a precaution, the plant operator said Friday. The incident occurred when five workers were cleaning pipes at the ALPS system filtering wastewater for release into the sea. The release of the 540 Olympic swimming pools worth of water is meant to clear space for the much more hazardous task of removing radioactive fuel and rubble from three stricken reactors.