Fukuhsima Daiich Recovery Workers
A worker being engaged in recovery work in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclera power plant recently joined an anti-nuclear demonstration held in front of the main office building of TEPCO, Tokyo, the utility company operating the plant.
He said that he had received doses of 7 mSv in a few months of the last year. Though the criterion for recognizing leukemia caused by radiation as an industrial injury is 5 mSv, he reached the dangerous level in just a few months.
The Fukushima Daiichi worker said that the nuclear power plant is a place of discrimination. Those who now work in Fukushima Daiichi are poor day laborers recruited in big cities such as Tokyo, residents living in poverty areas in Fukushima Prefecture, migration workers from the Tohoku region, agricultural zones that have traditionally provided work force for construction sites in Tokyo and so on. Those poor workers receive only 10,000 yen ($125) or less per day while receiving higher doses under severe condition.
The worker even criticized anti-nuclear citizens in Tokyo and big cities. "They call just abolition of nuclear power reactors. But who would work for abolition of nuclear facilities? It is poor workers who are discriminated socially," he said. "Anti-nuclear activists should study discrimination problems the nuclear technology has produced and exposed."
He also stressed that the number of workers was not enough; TEPCO and the Japanese Government have to commit more workers to the recovery of Fukushima Daiichi.
Even today 3,000 workers are engaged in recovery work in Fukushima Daiichi everyday.
Other worker in Fukushima Daiichi who is also a member of some anti-poverty movement also told the actual state of the site in Fukushima Daiichi.
- Some persons that do not know how to use a radioactivity measurement device are appointed to supervisors for checking radiation levels.
- TEPCO commits subcontractors who only wear ordinary clothing to management work that needs special radiation protective gears.
- TEPCO discharges water used for decontamination work to drainage channels without any treatment.
- Some workers have been already exposed to doses more than 1 sV, 1000 times higher than a statutory level for ordinary citizens in Japan.
- Some workers have faces burned probably by radiation doses.
- Some subcontractors have really raked off money from salaries of workers they recruit.
- Subcontractors recruit workers for Fukushima Daiichi recovery from the poor in cities looking for any job.
So, electricity Tokyo citizens use is a product of blood, sweat, and tears of the poor in addition to injustice.
Protective Gears of Fukushima Daiichi Recovery Workers
A Radiation Level Supervisor Coming from Other Nuclear Power Plant to Fukushima
A Subcontractor Worker Checking a Radioactivity Level in No.2 Unit of Fukushima Daiichi
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