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Exploitation of workers at Fukushima nuclear plant

Asahi: Fukushima workers report exploitation — Told to be like kamikaze — Large numbers leaving — “I wonder if we can raise children” http://enenews.com/asahi-fukushima-workers-report-exploitation-told-to-be-like-kamikaze-large-numbers-leaving-i-wonder-if-we-can-raise-children
December 9th, 2012 
Title: Worker wants new government to secure safety at Fukushima plant 
Source: AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
Author: Miki Aoki and Toshio Tada
Date: December 09, 2012

A man in his 50s hopes that a new government to be formed after the Dec. 16 Lower House election will protect the health of workers like himself at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant […]

The man said workers at the Fukushima No. 1 plant are being exploited. […]

“Many people work without seeing a doctor because they fear they might be told not to come anymore from the next day,” he said. “It is a distortion caused by the layers of subcontractors involved. I want the government to protect us.” […]Man in his 40s who worked at the plant until recently

  • [A]ll the workers assigned to high-radiation areas around the reactor buildings were from subcontractors
  • [E]mployees of plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. went around the areas only occasionally
  • [H]e never saw officials from regulatory government agencies in those areas
  • “I doubt whether any politician is giving serious thoughts on how to bring the crisis under control”
  • “It seems that political parties are calling for a move away from nuclear power only to attract votes”

A TEPCO employee in his 20s who grew up in Fukushima Prefecture

  • [He] has become an opponent of nuclear power after the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 plant
  • “I was told to work at the plant like a kamikaze pilot”
  • [He] is evacuating from Fukushima Prefecture due to high levels of radiation he received
  • “I have no idea about how much radiation I was exposed to”
  • He said a large number of his colleagues left the company during the past year
  • “I wonder if we can raise children”

 See also: NHK: One person stops working at Fukushima plant each day — A serious problem, conditions deteriorating (VIDEO)

December 10, 2012 - Posted by | employment, Fukushima 2012, Japan

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