Genius: Japan Reduces Radiation with Lead Lined Detectors
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 22, 2012 07:47 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, Crime, Earthquakes, Fukushima, Technology
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.
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How is this in any way legal and exactly why are the authorities letting this slide?
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos: "Money"
That is pretty heartless, especially after a national disaster.
You forget that other countries, normal as they seem, are more prone to utter stupitidy and cruelty and get away with it simply because they have no "constitution" like here in america. The constitution guides our laws and actions and so we consider it more on every level, as compared to other countries who don't have to worry about whether or not they're violating anyones rights.
You're an idiot. Just about every country has a constitution.
Every country has one, but most aren't like the US in the fact they kept it simple so it could evolve with age, but strict so it couldn't be loopholed (easily)
sadly our consitution rarely gets the job done in washington. all they have to do is call it a black op, sign an executive order,or outsource shadowy activity to the private sector and not oversee it. our rights are walked all over every day.
Yes, there is no stupitidy, stupidity or cruelty here in America because of the constitution.
Oh wow, are you saying that America doesn't violate those rights? Take your liberty-glasses off, America is beyond fucking corrupt.
Take your "I just want to bash people who actually is more successful" glasses off and maybe you might start to acknowledge your own shit in time to stop your nuclear plants from exploding.
Japan has now been exposed as china quality, only better at hiding their shit.
1. I don't have any nuclear plants in my country.
2. There's many kind of "success" and I can tell you, there's a lot of things my country do better than yours. The US might be successful and big right now, but it's only a matter of time before it crumbles with all the bullshit going on now.
dumbass, I know that the constitution has been violated many times in america, you fucking faggot. If you were smart enough to see the big picture though, it has helped us overall. And as you can see, if that were to happen in the united states, that company would have been shut down already.
Yeah, suuure!
What I was stating was that the US, is just as good at it as Japan. So shut the fuck up you little shit.
16:06 Fuckin jap bitch watch your mouth if you don't have the balls to bring it in person. Come down to central if you got your shit together and want to mouth off in front of someone in public.
Some countries are just better at hiding all the bad things they do.....until someone leaks it that is >.>
The American constitution has been violated more times than you can count, but our corrupt defense/intelligence industry relies on people either forgetting, or just never bothering to realize what's going on in the first place.
True that. It should be a death penalty offense to violate the Constitution and KNOWINGLY do that when you make new laws.
The constitution is more there for the average person to feel better knowing it's there. They let their guard down believing they don't have to worry and are protected. And like many of the comments here show, they will turn on anyone who points this out.
Fact is, the people in charge don't give a flying fuck about anyone but themselves and their friends, and the constitution can't stop them from screwing the rest of us if they feel like it.
If I recall correctly - Bush Jr called it "just a goddamned piece of paper"... and he got away with his war crimes. How many people died because of his lies and personal ambitions? That's just one example.
The Japanese constitution is modeled on ours, dumbass.
Exactly right. Japan's Constitution is modeled after ours, so all the rights Americans have do apply to the Japanese.
However, the Japanese are milquetoast as a people when it comes to challenging authority (for no good reason) so those constitutional guarantees mean little to nothing.
No wonder the readings are low...
That thickness of lead would not cut it much but still this is China quality stuff.
But at least they were not smart enough to use polyethylene as lead will mostly stop gamma rays but it's not very good at stopping neutrons.
But neutrons will combine with anything low atomic (including the cloth around the shirt pocket) to produce gamma rays.
Hence the lead shield will totally screw up the explosure readings.
You need to take into account real life situations instead of just lab reports lah.
I'd expect no less from TEPCO, scumbags.
This is so dumb and unbelievable that I'm not sure if I should believe it.
Lol, here we go...
every time you see a post about how this wouldn't happen anywhere else, take a shot.
Headline Tomorrow: 58 Die of Alcohol Poisoning
I suppose it's good that these things are coming out in the open - BUT why are we hearing these things only now, after the fact? Surely sacked / retired workers must have talked?
Given how many people knew about this, the media must have gotten wind of this earlier on. Why didn't they publish?
Thats one of the things nice about Western countries, they make their corruption much less idiotic. TEPCO, a bunch of dumbass geriatrics who couldn't tell left from right. What a bunch of morons.
As someone old enough to remember Chernobyl, I'd say the Russians still hold all records for shitty handling of a nuclear disaster.
That may be so, but the japs are catching up very fast.
Considering the magnitude of each incident the Japanese are REALLY f***ing it up. If the reactor had melted down to the aquifer like in Pripyat anime would forever be china-quality.
Probably, but seems TEPCO and Japan really want so bad to win the contest.
Absolutely. Chernobyl was so much bigger than the problems in Japan and, despite this latest revelation about TEPCO, was a crime against humanity. The Soviets and now the Russian government are still hiding the truth about the damage to Ukraine.
Holly wow. Is bad enough that they are only going to lead line the detectors..... Remember back in the days with Soviet Russia, their soldiers were covered head to toe with heavy lead armor to clean up Chernobyl......
Yes, I do remember that. Only in my version, they had no detectors or exposure tags so they didn't know what kinds of doses they were actually getting. And then years later when a good percentage of them started dying from various types of cancer...
Chernobyl was on a completely different scale, and type, where large amounts of plutonium was released. In comparison Fukushima was nothing.
Also, funny fact; many of the soldiers working on cleanup had smoke breaks when commanding officiers weren't watching.
Never trust a monopoly. When you have no competition you have no reason to provide a better service.
Every government is a defacto monopoly...the sad thing is that too many people don't realize that and think their lives will be better if they keep giving more power to their governments.
if only we had a cross-checking, pricing option like Progressive does.
compare rates and services. instant success.
Boy, this is dumb, almost China dumb.
More like:~ Boy, this is dumb, almost China clever!
It's not dumb, it's quite clever.
But it's CRIMINAL!
Not really clever. Clever would have been to give them fake dosimeters.
Clever would be realizing that the dosimeters send their data wirelessly directly to the office responsible for monitoring the worker safety, and would have included GPS locations.
Not to mention there would be some guys on ground verifying you were wearing the right dosimeter.
clever would of gotten away with it...
Should have given them complete lead suits of armours.
Unfortunately, You need a wast amount of lead to safely shield you from radiation. You need several decimeter lead to get an effective protection. It's not manageable even on vehicles.
The lead was to prevent the meters from reaching the exposure limit faster thus leading to more work time, not to protect the people.
A quick bit of research on lead poisoning just revealed that it only occurs if you breath in lead dust or swallow lead objects. Considering the radiation cleaners are actually wearing hazmat suits or the like, it's probable they won't be in that much danger (since they won't be breathing it in). Not the smartest move, but whatever.
Dumb bitch just got told
cmon Japan would't level their ingenuity to China or did they???
China would have to wait for some other country to do it before following suit.
Well, at least they don't explode.
Of course, its not China after all.
Was about to say "China quality", but i think China would take offense at the implication that Japan is copying them.
you mean the implication that someone can copy something better than they can?
Implying Japan did not invent corporate-assisted suicide before the Chinese even thought about it.
No one copies better than China! Soon they will have a tsunami and a disaster at a copy of Fukushima Dai-ichi!
Sounds like the old meaning for "made in Japan" to me.