Reactor Worker Leukemia Death “Nothing To Do With Us!”
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 31, 2011 06:00 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Crime, Earthquakes, Fukushima, Medical, Politics, Technology
The operators of the ruined reactors at Fukushima are under fire for claiming that the recent death of one of their reactor cleanup workers from cancer of the blood had “nothing to do with” his work amidst the radioactive ruins of the plant and that they have “no plans” to investigate it further.
Tepco recently announced the contract worker, in his forties and involved in radiation control work at the plant for a week in early August, died suddenly in the middle of the month from acute leukemia, shortly after finishing work at the plant.
Tepco claims that “according to a doctor’s diagnosis, his work had nothing to do with his cause of death” and states that “we have no plans to undertake any further investigation of his death.”
He was said to be exposed to 0.5 millisieverts of radiation during his work at the plant, 10% of the annual limit.
They say they have no idea what he had been doing before coming to work at the plant, and that they found no sign of the disease when they checked his health prior to sending him to work.
Leukemia normally develops over years rather than days, supporting Tepco’s assertions – although this would instead suggest Tepco sent a cancer sufferer in the terminal stages of the disease to work in a nuclear disaster area.
Japanese doctors have noted a much higher long-term incidence of leukemia amongst plant workers than chance would suggest likely.
Tepco has been criticised both before and during the crisis for using ultra short-term contract workers to undertake maintenance work at the plant, rotating them out of the plant as soon as their radiation exposure reaches legal limits.
Some have claimed this allowed them to maintain much laxer radiation safety standards than would have been the case if they were irradiating their own permanent employees.
Supposedly there have been no deaths directly caused by the events at Fukushima, although a number of indirect deaths (suicides by bankrupted farmers and so on) have been recorded, and the sheer amount of radiation released seems likely to at least cause many life-shortening illnesses.
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LIARS!!!
It can develop in DAYS if the level is higher those the body can sustain.
Tepco = inverse nuke!
This article does not state that Tepco said it did not take days.
It's 10% of annual limit...
Maybe a mutated acute leukemia. They neither lie or denied the facts about it.
>Maybe a mutated acute leukemia. They neither lie or denied the facts about it.
Not sure if serious.
He gained superpowers from the mutation and was killed by the government.
ishithara discovered he was a mega pedobear otaku n killed him off coz he violated ishithara's granddaughter.
Radiation doesn't work like that. Ionized cells can no longer maintain normal function and die, they don't mutate.
10% annual exposure in 1 week time. You can do the math and see he was exposed to 5 times the daily limit for that whole week.
You can get cancer from radiation exposure from any given amount. It's all about probability. If you limit exposure to under the established levels, the chances of the average person developing cancer is a negligible amount higher than normal exposure levels. BUT it can still happen.
That being said, leukemia isn't going to originate from an irradiated cell, develop, metastisize and kill someone in a couple weeks. Radiation poisoning will kill someone in this manner, but no cancer will.
Also the probability of developing cancer is based on cell death and reproduction and not radiation itself. This is why it always seems so random because it doesn't have any real relation to ANYTHING but EVERYTHING at the same time.
The Linear no-threshold model have no scientific studies verifying it's accuracy, it has simply been taken for granted by regulatory agencies that it is correct.
Real data actually disagrees with it, and support non-linear models like Threshold model and even Radiation hormesis.
Radiation hormesis actually have a very big point arguing in it's favor, and that is the town Ramsar in the Mazandaran province in Iran.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsar,_Mazandaran
It has the highest recorded levels of background radiation on earth, with radiation levels in excess of 260 mGy or 46 mSv a year.
No ill effects have been observed for the residents of Ramsar. On the contrary, there appears to be less health problems there.
It's lovely how they throw around numbers and radiation figures like it means anything. In the early days of the disaster, the workers waded around extremely radioactive water that seeped into their boots. It's much less 'rocket science' in terms of radioactive prevention for the workers than they would have the public believe.
The electric company and government basically are conspiring against the public at this point. And yet some ignoramuses eat this stuff up like hotcakes. Just disgusting.
It would take far more than your baseless accusations to convince me that a corporation is willing to commit a suicide just to save a few bucks. Do you have any proof?
Is "human failure" prove enough?
Try the Hinkley groundwater contamination.
"Oh no need to worry, chromium can be found in many multivitamins."
Except that hexavalent chromium is a known carcinogen, when inhaled.
And can cause kidney and liver damage when ingested. So not exactly a harmless multivitamin component by any means.
even a broken watch is right twice a day
No, leukemia cannot develop in days. It is even impossible to destroy the bone marrow by radiation acquired over the whole body instead to the leg bones only. Before the marrow is destroyed, the whole patient would be literally fried under radiation. In the world's medicine it is unknown the case, that somebody dies of leukemia several months after he was radiated even with doses that caused severe radiation sickness. The only known cause of death up to several months after irradiation is radiation sickness only and has nothing in common with leukemia. Leukemia could develop years after irradiation and (as a cancer) this is one of possible distant irradiation adverse results.
It means, that TEPCO sent the leukemia ill person to work in Fukushima. Frankly speaking - this was considerate, he had not so much to loose as a healthy person. He had to die anyway.
that isn't Arte in the picture is it?
TEPCO & Diet are the last people I'd trust, especially when it involves to nuclear power.
FUCK!, LEUKEMIA???!!!!!!
someone omitted an "of" from the first sentence.
i.e.; The operators of the ruined,...
so he forgets to use "of" from time to time, its not his fault for being in Japan for so long, stop picking on him!
Absolutely the same shit that is told here (in Russia) about Chernobil.
There is NO official deaths from cancer, caused by radiation. None of 100+k deaths of all the soldiers and workers, that were on the Plant after the reactor's destruction, was caused by radiatiob for the last 25 years. Ofiicially.
The same Japan will tell us about Fukushima next 25 years.
This is the world we're living in.
Sad but true.
Chernobyl is in Ukraine, no?
As for Japan, it's not the first time the say such shit, when shit happens. Same was with mass deaths because of chem plant waste dump, etc, etc...
The interests of big business prevail as usual.
Exactly why Adam Jensen quit his job. "Serve and protect" has become "Serve and protect the corporate interest".
Chernobyl, Ukraine.
They had a pretty hot Prime Minister.
Yulia Tymoshenko...someone should cos-play her.
google her
Did not disappoint.
You mean that cheating mahjong player?
http://oi56.tinypic.com/24zzn1j.jpg
went in the wrong spot but yeah where is that from?
Hottest looking PM I've ever seen! Sweet!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-2i3-C1Saeg/Rcd7kQucqVI/AAAAAAAAAbE/XS8FVkIvmcU/s400/PGEZ.jpg
she's ready for me penis
ditto and which doujin is that?
Estimates of deaths caused by Chernobyl range from a completely ridiculous UN report that claims 62 deaths to an equally ridiculous Russian report claiming 985,000 deaths. To put this in perspective, coal-fired electricity generation alone is estimated to kill 300,000 people each year. So even with the worst possible estimates, even if there was a Chernobyl every 4 years, nuclear power would still be safer than coal.
The UN number is direct deaths caused by the accident, not those from long term radiation exposure.
So far about 4-5000 are estimated to die earlier from cancer caused by radiation from Chernobyl.
But yeah, if seen as deaths per TWh, nuclear is the by far safest form of energy. Even safer than solar or wind.
World average from coal is 161 and from oil 36. Rooftop solar is at 0.44, while wind comes in at 0.15.
Hydro sits at 0.10, but goes up to 1.4 if the Banqiao dam burst is included.
Nuclear is the absolute lowest at 0.04 deaths per TWh, including those Chernobyl numbers above.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html
10% of annual limit.
A higher incidence shouldn't be unexpected.
Just because they say that so many millisieverts of radiation per year are "safe", that doesn't mean you should go seeking them out. As little radiation as possible is always going to give you the best chance.
Sad about the bankrupted farmers. Why isn't their government helping them?
cause they're likely chinese immigrants or employed chinese immigrants. seriously, most of the farming in japan is not done by japanese. there's not enough money in it for them, so they employ chinks from the mainland.
Once again, they might not be "covering it up" if their track record with the whole incident is looked at.
The reactors would have melted down if it wasn't for a US lead team of UN engineers inspecting the reactors, telling them they where doing EVERYTHING wrong, and telling them to surrender the handling of it completely or it would melt down with absolute certainty.
Wouldn't be surprising if they didn't understand radiation either after their incompetence of the reactors became more then apparent..
Hell, their "solution" was to just dump the radioactive water into the sea at tens of thousands of TONS amounts and beyond..
Almost all of their reactor handling was pretty god damn "China quality" if you want to be honest..
shame they didn't, japan could use a lesson in learning why you don't simply throw dirt over your problems, then lie about how bad they really are.
I don't know in what kind of alternate reality you are living (one where USA USA USA!!!! saves the world).
But the reactors are currently melting down and going into a full china syndrome clusterfark. Even with all the coverups it seems now accepted that at least one of them have seen his primordial goo melting down the bottom concrete layer and heading right to the subterranean water stratus under the plant on its way to the earth core...
Right. Well, excuse me if I'm not convinced by your baseless allegations. I'm sure somewhere in the master plan, poisoning the entire world is a great idea to someone.
I find it hard to believe that a person who cannot understand disaster would be able to understand the physics of building a fission reactor.
Perhaps you would enlighten us about who exactly is "them"?
No such thing happened.
And the reactors did meltdown. Meltdown is when the fuel breaches the reactor containment, not when it blows up. Get your facts straight before making baseless claims.
Yes, I'm sure letting the fuel go critical was a better idea.
U FUCKIN LIARS...but hey what goes around comes around...
Leukemia generally takes a minimum of 3 years to occur after exposure (i.e., the latent period). Higher exposures (i.e., more than 1 - 2 Gy [or 1000 - 2000 mGy]) are expected to cause damage to blood forming organs, but the effects of mutations take some time to occur.
That being said, death from acute leukemia can come rapidly; even if the exposure occurred years before
Yeah, I basically just said the same thing in another comment. I would have just bumped this one if I had seen it.
Articles like these make me doubt the reading and critical thinking skills of some sankon users.
Only articles like this?
so maby he died for his country and this is how he gets repaid? “nothing to do with" “we have no plans to undertake any further investigation of his death”
I'd curse u..