What's happening at Fukushima?

[Octafish]

15. Nuclear workers kept in dark on Fukushima hazard pay

Reuters/CNBC
Tuesday, 7 Oct 2014 | 8:44 PM ET

Almost a year after Japan pledged to double hazard pay at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, workers are still in the dark about how much extra they are getting paid, if anything, for cleaning up the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

Under pressure to improve working conditions at Fukushima after a series of radioactive water leaks last year, Tokyo Electric Power Co President Naomi Hirose promised in November to double the hazard pay the utility allocates to its subcontractors for plant workers. That would have increased the amount each worker at the nuclear facility is supposed to earn to about $180 a day in hazard pay.

Only one of the more than three dozen workers interviewed by Reuters from July through September said he received the full hazard pay increase promised by Tepco. Some workers said they got nothing. In cases where payslips detailed a hazard allowance, the amounts ranged from $36 to about $90 a day – at best half of what Hirose promised.

In some instances, workers said they were told they would be paid a hazard bonus based on how much radiation they absorb – an incentive tabsorb – an incentive to take additional risks at a dangerous work site.

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That's how TEPCO, Japan and Nuke Inc are treating their workers engaged in the hazardous clean-up that we know about. I imagine the real story is much worse. No one knows what's really going on at Fukushima, as the news now is censored in Japan.