Fukushima Daiichi vs. Tokyo Olympics
Presently recovery work in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant is in a very difficult condition, though the Japanese Government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) do not make it widely known in the world.
It is a scarcity of manpower. Many workers in the Plant have already received doses to their allowable limit. Though 3,000 workers are engaged in recovery work, more and more real experienced workers are leaving Fukushima Daiichi. Each worker is not allowed to receive radiation over 50 mSv per year. This regulation eliminates many veteran Fukushima Daiichi workers of TEPCO and its subcontractors. As a result, there are now many amateur workers and dubious laborers mobilized by suspicious subcontractors, including ex-homeless persons and a kind of gangsters.
In addition, the Government launched a massive decontamination operation around residential areas and individual houses situated around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Plant. So, many subcontractors opt to dispatch workers to the decontamination work rather than to Fukushima Daiichi.
What is worse, TEPCO is losing its employees. Many engineers and office workers of TEPCO are leaving the company due to deterioration of business environment caused by the nuclear accident. In 2012, total 712 workers quit jobs in TEPCO. Those who were engaged in core business of the utility accounted for 40% of the 712 men and women who left TEPCO. So, the management of TEPCO is somehow at stake.
Moreover, since all the 50 nuclear power plants in Japan are now halted due to exhaustive checks and inspections imposed after the Fukushima Daiichi accident, TEPCO has expected that nuclear workers who lost jobs in other nuclear plants would come to Fukushima Daiichi. But those workers with reasonable technical skills can easily find jobs in other factories and plants in industries other than the nuclear industry. They have not come to Fukushima Daiichi where they should receive higher doses.
So, the situation around Fukushima Daiichi is too early to be optimistic. In the worst case, some parties concerned think that TEPCO will be forced to use some foreign hands, since suitable Japanese workforce for Fukushima Daiichi can be depleted sooner or later.
And if construction work should start for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Fukushima Daiichi will face a more serious condition while many workers and subcontractors will go and find easy jobs in Tokyo.
So, you had better request the Japanese Government to abandon the Olympics scheduled in Tokyo in 2020.
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