Japanese Workers Braved Radiation for a Temp Job

[homasse]

Japanese Workers Braved Radiation for a Temp JobThe ground started to buck at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and Masayuki Ishizawa could scarcely stay on his feet. Helmet in hand, he ran from a workers’ standby room outside the plant’s No. 3 reactor, near where he and a group of workers had been doing repair work. He saw a chimney and

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[freeze_i_say]

I fucking hate how the nuclear energy lobbies both sides of the Atlantic went into a PR hyperdrive within actual hours of the partial meltdown. And fuck most newspapers for taking their blood money : I've hardly seen any articles criticizing nuclear energy practices this past month and I've seen *plenty* of editorials, op-eds and articles about how ~despite Fukushima~, nuclear energy is apparently our ONLY option. UGH RAGE

"Takeshi Kawakami, 64, remembers climbing into the spent-fuel pool of the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant during an annual maintenance shutdown in the 1980s to scrub the walls clean of radiation with brushes and rags. All workers carried dosimeters set to sound an alarm if exposure levels hit a cumulative dose limit; Mr. Kawakami said he usually did not last 20 minutes."

omg