“Out of work? Nowhere to live? Nowhere to go? Nothing to eat? Come to Fukushima.” [View all]

[kpete]

MONDAY, MAR 17, 2014 09:11 AM PDT
Fukushima’s “crisis of manpower”: Unskilled and destitute workers have taken over the cleanup process



The serious and delicate business of decommissioning Fukushima’s crippled nuclear plant is being undertaken by a series of unskilled, poorly trained workers, the New York Times reports, in a “crisis of manpower” that can have dangerous implications both for environmental safety and for the workers themselves.

A series of mishaps, coupled with the dangerous nature of the work to begin with, has made the cleanup a less than desirable gig — Reuters, which has been following the worksite closely, has already reported on how homeless men are being rounded up and paid below minimum wage to clean up radioactive fallout.

The Times has more on the scary state of affairs at Fukushima, summed up by this online ad: “Out of work? Nowhere to live? Nowhere to go? Nothing to eat? Come to Fukushima.”

MORE:
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/17/fukushimas_crisis_of_manpower_unskilled_and_destitute_workers_have_taken_over_the_cleanup_process/