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Fukushima Workers Target of Hate in Japan

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Low level radiation increased leukaemia risk for nuclear cleanup workers

November 16, 2012

Chernobyl study shows need for caution in Fukushima
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121114f2.html# UKO27Xhzxqg.twitter Kyodo A study released Thursday by a U.S. research team links protracted exposure to low-level radiation to a higher risk of leukemia among workers engaged in the cleanup of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and points to the need to protect those involved in dealing with the Fukushima crisis.
In the U.S. study, scientists did a follow up health
survey covering 110,645 clean up workers through 2006 and found 137
developed leukaemia…….

https://nuclear-news.net/2012/11/16/low-level-radiation-increased-leukaemia-risk-for-nuclear-cleanup-workers/

Fukushima workers with high internal radiation doses

High thyroid radiation doses in 178 Fukushima workers Asahi Shimbun, December 01, 2012
By YURI OIWA Dozens of workers received potentially cancerous doses of radiation to
their thyroid glands during recovery work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to data submitted to the World Health
Organization.

Tests on workers suspected of having high whole-body internal doses
found 178 individuals whose thyroid glands displayed doses greater
than 100 millisieverts, the generally accepted threshold for a raised
risk of thyroid cancer…….

https://nuclear-news.net/2012/12/03/fukushima-workers-with-high-internal-radiation-doses/

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……

https://nuclear-news.net/2012/12/10/exploitation-of-workers-at-fukushima-nuclear-plant/

Shortage of workers at Fukushima nuclear plant resulted in high radiation exposure

Worker shortages revealed at nuclear plant after disaster
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T130113003104.htm   14 Jan
A manager’s calls for reinforcements to help contain a series of
crises at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power
plant were ignored, newly released TEPCO teleconference footage has
revealed…..

https://nuclear-news.net/2013/01/14/shortage-of-workers-at-fukushima-nuclear-plant-resulted-in-high-radiation-exposure/

Workers say Fukushima radioactive debris dumped in a river

Fukushima cleanup workers break silence: Ordered to dump ‘debris’ into river — Gov’t “appeared not to believe him”http://enenews.com/fukushima-cleanup-workers-break-silence-ordered-to-dump-debris-into-river-govt-appeared-not-to-believe-him
March 2nd, 2013
 Asahi Shimbun,, March 1, 2013: CROOKED CLEANUP: Workers break silence to allege boss ordered corner-cutting […] Three laborers involved in radioactive cleanup around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant have alleged that a supervisor told them to dump debris in a river […] At a news conference in the Diet building on Feb. 28, the men said a foreman ordered them to discard fallen branches and leaves into a river in an upland forest in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, in November 2012.  […] this is the first time that decontamination workers have publicly come forward. […] The third man, in his 40s, said he related what had happened to officials at the Environment Ministry. He spoke to them for more than an hour, he said, but they appeared not to believe him. […]
See also: Asahi: River turned brown after dumping radioactive waste into water — “I was following an order, I am sorry for polluting

Misleading information masks true level of radiation received by Fukushima workers

63 workers exposed to higher radiation than logged in their records,
March 02, 2013, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN  by Toshio Tada and Jun Sato
Dozens of workers at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant
were exposed to radiation levels higher than those registered in their
personal records, according to a health ministry investigation.

Misleading information was kept in at least 63 cases….. In the
largest discrepancy, one worker’s monthly exposure was revised from
4.4 millisieverts to 6.35 millisieverts. Those whose records are not
updated could end up working at a nuclear facility beyond the legal
annual limits for radiation exposure.

The number of workers with inaccurate personal radiation exposure
records is expected to increase because the ministry has yet to start
an investigation into the eight-month period immediately following the
disaster that unfolded in March 2011….

https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/04/misleading-information-masks-true-level-of-radiation-received-by-fukushima-workers/

High radiation levels prevent workers from entering Fukushima nuclear reactors

Inside Fukushima two years on: radiation levels too high to enter reactors Telegraph UK, 6 March 13, Two years on from the second-worst nuclear disaster in history, The Telegraph’s Julian Ryall visits the Fukushima nuclear plant to see what progress – if any – is being made. By Julian Ryall, Fukushima Nuclear Plant, Japan

Scientists still do not have a firm understanding of the precise conditions of the reactor cores in three of the six units at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, and are resorting to using remote-controlled vehicles to get inside the tangle of wires, pipes and rubbles that has lain untouched since the tsunami tore through the facility….

https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/07/high-tadiation-levels-prevent-workers-from-entering-fukushima-nuclear-reactors/

March 11, 2013 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized