(Worker) Safety fears at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

[kristopher]

Safety fears at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
03/05/2012 By majiroxnews

TOKYO (majirox news) — Low pay and overwork could trigger a shortage of workers at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The Tokyo Occupational Safety and Health Center warned this week of these dangers – with workers at the crippled site earning as little as 100 dollars a day.

After the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, conditions of the workers seem to be plummeting. For example, according to the Sankei newspaper, a man in his 50s working at Fukushima nuclear power plant died in October, apparently from overwork.

One government official has taken issue with plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) handling of the situation. “There’s no mistaking that the plant is a dangerous worksite, and I don’t think that we have adequate working conditions in place there,” said Katsuya Iida, secretary general of the Tokyo Occupational Safety and Health Center. “So it’s hard to say if we will be able to bring in a large number of people required to do the work. The point I must emphasize is that it’s really important to reduce the amount of radiation that each individual gets and to do that, we need to bring in more people.”

Bringing in more workers is going to be hard. Already, 167 workers have exceeded their lifetime radiation exposure limit of 100 milliseverts. Now public concern hangs on the threat of radiation.

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http://www.majiroxnews.com/2012/03/05/safety-fears-at-fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-plant/

[madokie]

1. The reason for the low wages I suspect

would be to hire those who are desperate for a job. They would be less likely to have the resources to sue them later when they start having issues that they were assured they were protected from. IMHO

If I was still working age and able I wouldn't work for 100 bucks a day unless I was mighty hungry. I don't know what their workers doing that kind of work gets paid if there hadn't been the earthquake.