Sensors were installed last spring at Reactor 3 building, registered no shaking in this month’s 7.1-magnitude quake.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company admits it knew earthquake sensors are broken at Fukushima power plant
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Foreign workers being hired for Fukushima nuclear power plant decommissioning project
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