Monday, September 26, 2011

External article: 'Actual workers talk about Fukushima' at Fukushima Diary

Work conditions for the mostly unqualified workers at destroyed Fukushima Dai Ichi nuclear power plant are not really known. Now some workers speak out anonymously: salaries not paid, lack of training, very bad and illegal working conditions...

The translation to English could be better but still very worth reading. Also available in German, Italian and Korean.

Some excerpts:

... working conditions are unfair and illegal. We have no insurance, we are poorly paid and we [don't] even have a contract.

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... you have promised me 15,000 yen [USD 200] a day and I’ve got nothing...
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Even many experienced workers from the nuclear industry have refused to work in Fukushima, she said, “This is suicide,” because they know the effects of elevated radioactivity.
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You will not find a real solution that allows to separate the molten fuel rods, which are the cause of the diffusion of radioactive material when the technician can not approach the fast reactor core...

Read the  full story at Fukushima Diary.


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