Workers in Fukushima Daiichi
Even today 3000 workers are engaged in recovery work in the Fukushima Daiichi Plant which fell into malfunction due to big tsunamis since March 11, 2011.
But they are not so happy.
They have to work in dangerous environment with poor facilities. What is worse, most of them have been recruited by dubious companies or subcontractors at the fourth, fifth , or lower tier in contract structure down from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO). Therefore some percentage of a salary TEPCO paid for one worker is taken by those companies involved in this contract chain.
For example, a second tier subcontractor paid $250 (25,000 yen) for one worker per day to a third tier subcontractor. Finally a worker employed by a fifth tier subcontractor in this chain of recruiting received only $110 per day for his work in Fukushima Daiichi. It is also doubted that some businesses run by crime syndicates are involved in this chain of recruiting Fukushima Daiichi workers. Some money TEPCO pays as labor costs eventually settles in the hand of gangsters.
What is more dangerous is a disciplinary problem. In a rest room of Fukushima Daiichi, it is often observed that some tired workers lie about without protective masks on their faces while a dosimeter alarm is ringing. There are even teenage workers who are not given a warning about danger of radioactive material.
It is estimated that Fukushima residents account for 60% of those workers in Fukushima Daiichi. Some of those Fukushima citizens lost their jobs, agriculture fields, and houses due to the Fukushima Daiichi accident. They like to stay in Fukushima Prefecture even if they have to work in the radioactively contaminated Fukushima Daiichi plant.
In some statistics there are 500,000 people in Japan who have ever worked in a nuclear power plant. But some of them are forbidden by law to work for one year if an accumulated dosage they received during their work in nuclear plants should become larger than 100 mSv in five years.
Contaminated Water Tanks in Fukushima Daiichi
No.4 Reactor Building in Fukushima Daiichi
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