Fukushima No. 1 workers rally against Tepco

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Source: AFP-JIJI



Workers from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant rallied Friday outside the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Co., complaining they are being forced to work for meager pay in dangerous conditions.

The group of about 100 demonstrators shouted and pumped their fists in the air as they railed against being cheated by contractors hired to find recruits to clean up the shattered site and surrounding area.

“Workers at the Fukushima plant have been forced to do unreasonable tasks with no decent safety measures,” said one man in his 30s who declined to give his name.

He said he was laid off after several months in the job due to heavy radiation exposure.

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Read more: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/14/national/fukushima-no-1-workers-rally-against-tepco/#.UyN_E17xYXF

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1. Via Fukushima Update

via http://fukushimaupdate.com/fukushima-no-1-workers-rally-against-tepco/

[nikto]

2. My heart is with them, all the way

[madokie]

3. We were all sold a pig in a poke

and its coming back to bite us in the ass. Nothing else I can think of has the potential to cause great harm as what a nuclear power plant does.
It's just a matter of time until we have our own Chernobyl/Fukushima right here at home. Irregardless of why or how it won't matter one whit when it happens either. All that will matter is what we do after the fact. One has to remember that many of our nuclear power plants are close to large population areas, enough to give one pause. For instance how do you evacuate Manhattan if one of the four reactors goes belly up at the Indian Point Nuclear Center? 35 miles away is not very far as far as the wind blows and radiation is concerned.
Every single one of our 104 nuclear power plants are a powder keg that could go up due to, sometimes the simplest of reasons, like loss of power for instance, an earthquake, a Terrorist attack, things that can happen. The terrorist attack wouldn't have to be on the hardened reactor buildings either it could be any number of the support machinery.

I say we work toward shutting them down and I mean work diligently towards that goal

If Fukushima and Chernobyl hasn't shown us anything else it's shown us just how dangerous and vulnerable these power plants are.

[dotymed]

4. Thank you Madokie.

Greed will quickly kill this world if nuclear plants are not shuttered and declared "super fund sites." What idiot actually believes we can control the uncontrollable?
Yes. most reactors are placed where they will kill and devastate some of our largest population areas. That doesn't take into account the after devastation.
Pure Idiocy.
Ever go to Monroe, Mi.? Close to Detroit? It is densely populated with a huge OLD Fermi plant, right in the middle.

[brooklynboy49]

6. The Biggest Story of the New Millennium

By far, Fukushima is the biggest story of the Millenium.

Wages? Safety conditions?

I am sure that working there is certain death, no matter what you wear. Yes, I suppose there is protective wear sufficient to protect workers, but it probably costs $50 or $100,000/suit. And that's iust too cost prohibitive for a corporation with stockholders to answer to. And wages? There is no sufficient salary. What's a fair wage for being sent to your certain death?

No, the story that isn't being reported is just how disastrous this was and continues to be. Thousands of gallons of radioactive water being pumped in to the Pacific every day. The destruction of the planet is underway in earnest, and what do we get for news? Jessica Simpson.

If anything deserves daily round-the-clock coverage, it's Fukushima, not a missing airliner. I'm not minimizing the seriousness of the missing airliner, I'm just saying I believe Fukushima is HUGE. Maybe it's just me. But when two-headed fish start washing up on the shores of Alaska, Washington and Hawaii in 5 or 10 years, after it's too late (if it's not already), maybe then they'll start their coverage of the beginning of the end.

Yeah, it's that big. I just hope I'm blowing the whole thing out of proportion and am totally wrong. But I'm not the chicken little type. As the story was initially unfolding, I was saying to myself, "This is it. We're toast."

As I said, I just hope I'm wrong.

[madokie]

7. I just hope you and I are both wrong

I'm nearing the end of my life so I probably won't see the end to this, providing there is an end that is. There's a lot of kids being born every day who will have to live with the consequences of what we've done to this planet in the name of profits, personal gain, money, greed, however one wants to put it. Its isn't right that we do what we're doing concerning the use of nuclear energy and if anyone can't see that they're either blind, ignorant or crazy, take your pick.
The thing is we can do better. We don't have to do things like we are like burning up all this coal, every drop of oil they can pump etc. There is better ways of getting the energy we need. By buying this pig called, safe, clean and cheap nuclear energy we've lost 60 plus years working on better ways of getting there.

It doesn't have to be this way

What we're doing concerning nuclear sucks, its criminal if you ask me.

BTW, Welcome to DU

[yuiyoshida]

5. I POSTED this yesterday ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024662595