Reply #5: Chernobyl 'jumper' airs Fukushima fears

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At Fukushima, workers face monumental task and dangers.



Chernobyl 'jumper' airs Fukushima fears

By SITI RAHIL
Kyodo
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Singapore — Sergei Belyakov, a scientist who helped clean up debris after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, is worried about Japanese workers now risking their lives to contain the aftermath of core meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.

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"My way to deal with (the fear) was to break the task into smaller pieces, my whole idea was to run to that level a couple of times, just to make sure that I get to that point.

"I told myself I got to go five steps in that direction, make a couple of steps left or right because it is an area that is indicated by flags, that it is highly radioactive stuff. Once you do that, you take one step at a time.

"What's wrong with stepping two steps to the ladder and then while you are there nothing happens, what's wrong now with climbing up, and you go round the corner, you see that reactor open, nothing, you are still alive, that's physically how you do it," he explained.

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