Nuke plant hires not overexposed | The Japan Times Online
A radiation table with data on about 70 employees from subcontractors hired to bring the Fukushima nuclear plant crisis under control says none were exposed beyond the emergency limit of 250 millisieverts, a document obtained by Kyodo News says. The document — a table on workers’ radiation exposure — was compiled by subcontractors based on [...]
TEPCO president apologizes in Fukushima : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE The Daily Yomiuri
FUKUSHIMA–Masataka Shimizu, the president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., visited Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato on Friday to apologize for the ongoing crisis at the firms Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, but the governor expressed dissatisfaction with the company’s handling of the situation. … This was the first time the TEPCO president had met with the [...]
Nuke workers at risk of overwork death | The Japan Times Online
‘] More on the TEPCO Fukushima workers’ working conditions. I’ve underlined one part that seems to reveal peculiary Japanese values. The workers are not only undertaking dangerous work in severe conditions but also feel a sense of moral responsibility as employees of the operator of the crippled plant, Takeshi Tanigawa said in an interview…. Tanigawa, a [...]
Twitter / @Steve Herman: Yomiuri: #Fukushima reside …
VoA’s Steve Herman tweets: Yomiuri: #Fukushima residents being shunned elsewhere in Japan – http://bit.ly/gwxPVV (in 日本語) via Twitter / @Steve Herman: Yomiuri: #Fukushima reside …. So, it now looks as though TEPCO’s policy of keeping their Fukushima workers out of the news and anonymous may not be a conspiracy to exploit the workers, but rather a [...]
Nuke plant worker mum about own exposure to fallout | The Japan Times Online
The “faceless Fukushima 50″, they’ve been called. They’ve also been banned from talking to the media, although some are obviously defying the ban (or is this a deliberate leak?). I haven’t been keeping a beady eye on non-Japanese media reports about these, so I’m not sure how they have been reported, but no doubt there [...]
2011/04/03 21:32 – Absorbent Yet To Soak Up Radioactive Water At Fukushima Plant
Update on the bodies of two workers found recently at Fukushima. They died of bleeding from multiple injuries apparently after the tsunami struck the plant, TEPCO said. It is the first time that TEPCO workers have been confirmed to have died at the Daiichi plant following the twin disasters. via 2011/04/03 21:32 – Absorbent Yet [...]
Rural sports complex turns into base camp for nuclear workers | The Japan Times Online
The Japan Times provides more details of the working conditions at Fukushima, and reports on Kan’s visit there. Update:I don’t think this is the complete truth, but this article and others on the same subject seem to indicate that the government and TEPCo are aware of people’s concern and anxiety over a) the workers on [...]
Workers endure austere conditions in averting nuclear disaster – CNN.com
These guys are heroes. As of course are the ones not necessarily doing the actual work but racking their brains for seat-of-the-pants solutions to multiple problems (whether these problems could or should have been foreseen must wait until the crisis is over before being decided). Until now, I haven’t linked to any CNN article, as [...]
