SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s nuclear safety regulator said Thursday the radiation exposure of two workers at Samsung Electronics Co.’s chip plant was caused by mismanagement of safety equipment. In late May, the two workers in the chip production line of Samsung’s Giheung Campus in Yongin, 42 kilometers south of Seoul, experienced X-ray [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean medical workers’ occupational radiation exposure is at a safe level, falling far short of upper limits but still higher than exposure in other industrialized countries, data showed Monday. The per-capita occupational radiation exposure of the nation’s 101,964 radiologists, radiology technicians and nurse assistants at 42,527 medical institutions [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Eight of nine North Korean defectors suspected of being exposed to radiation came from the vicinity of the North’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site, an opposition lawmaker said Thursday, citing data from a government institution. A total of 40 defectors were tested for radiation exposure from 2017 to last year [...]