Disgust with the morally degenerate and extraordinarily dangerous antics of Japan’s nuclear power industry has reached an even greater pitch with the revelations that their novel approach to reducing the radiation exposure of clean-up workers was to line their radiation detectors with lead.
According to taped conversations provided by whistleblowers, one of the subcontractors Tokyo’s reviled nuclear power monopoly Tepco hired to clean up the fallout from its exploding reactors reduced the radiation exposure of its clean-up workers by making them wear lead-lined dosimeters.
The directive apparently came straight from their board, and was considered essential as otherwise the workers would have reached the legal limits for radiation exposure too quickly.
One director ordered a team of 10 workers to commence work with the lead shielded dosimeters, but 3 objected. The director later called a “meeting” with the holdouts, which one of them cunningly taped and much later provided to the press.
The director denies giving the orders, but several other employees affirm it was given.
Tepco’s approach to managing the disaster was apparently to subcontract out all the dirty work to a web of smaller companies, many of whom seem to have got round radiation exposure limits by simply hiring people off the street and dumping them as soon as their limit was reached, if they were lucky.
The government has said it will investigate reports of the radiation shielded radiation detectors, although somehow it seems online calls for the company’s executives to be charged with murder will not be heeded.
Lead just blocks α-rays and β-rays. maybe even ε-rays, but not γ-rays, so it’s not really betrayal of the people since their suits should at least protect them from the first two. γ-rays have the highest energy and go through everything, including the human body (like the x-rays), but their lasting-range is really short, so unless you go directly into the reactor the exposure to γ-rays is unlikely (unless you got β-rays and ε-rays, which are respectively elektrons [e-] and positrons [e+], if those two collide they degenerate into 2 γ-quants) unless you go directly into the reactor and stand beside the nuclear mass….
I’d already heard about this news elsewhere, but it’s good to see Sankaku finally pushing some international awareness about the situation in Japan.
I think many people are still utterly oblivious to the situation in Japan and the dangers of man-made nuclear tech radiation. They often assume that all radiation (from the sun, x-rays, etc) is the same and harmless, when in fact they are completely different. Look up ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. That’s our current understanding of it. They might end up finding that it’s inaccurate.
They also insist that nuclear tech is “safe”. When they tell us that, they don’t tell us they manipulated the data or that their “safety tests” are an estimated likelihood of potential fatalities over a short period of time. It’s still legally “safe” if it poisons and cripples you over a long period, and you won’t be able to prove otherwise. The only way they can honestly claim it’s safe is with a time machine.
Consider this: nuclear tech hasn’t even been around a hundred years, yet we’ve had already had serious accidents that render areas of the planet uninhabitable. We don’t know what to do about them, but we’re still building tons of nuclear plants everywhere and the waste from those needs to be stored somewhere until it THEORETICALLY becomes safe – in hundreds to thousands of years. How can anyone feel safe about that?
I know this isn’t the best place to write about this, but better some people read about it than none. I understand everybody just wants to be happy, but this is not something we can keep turning a blind eye to. The problem will keep getting worse until people accept it and try to make it better.
Those filthy whites sure love to fail in life.
Akumetsu the f♥♥k out of them!
10 were ordered, 3 objected, 7 idiots. I know the economic crisis is hitting everybody hard and if you have a job you do anything to keep it, but there are better ways to commit suicide. I mean, radiation poisoning is no walk in the park or a cheap way to go