Tepco: Fukushima nuclear worker hospitalized

Published: January 7th, 2012 at 8:41 am ET
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Breaking news : Another nuclear worker at reactor 5 and 6 was sent to the hospital, Fukushima Diary, Jan. 7, 2012:

  • Tepco announced a nuclear worker was sent to the hospital for his chest pain
  • AM 10:20, he (40s) claimed his pain in his chest
  • He was working at reactor 5 and 6, to carry protective clothing
  • He was sent to the emergency medical room
  • Tepco asserts it was his chronic disease

Read the report here

Recorded live on January 7, 2012 3:58 AM ET, 120107 東電会見 午後のみ, iwakamiyasumi2:

Published: January 7th, 2012 at 8:41 am ET
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28 comments to Tepco: Fukushima nuclear worker hospitalized

  • ion jean ion jean

    Chest pain?? Aerosolized plutonium or cesium? I cannot understand the refusal of all medical facilities to biopsy tissue for radioactivity!

    Not just Japan, but instituted by Big Daddy USA


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    • The Gov. may have issued a GAG order on testing or may have said not to test, Much as the GAG order imposed over the GOM testings !

      Gag order issued in Dolphins Death Probe !
      To Gulf Oil Spill on Friday, March 25, 2011

      …Wildlife biologists contracted by the National Marine Fisheries Service to document spikes in dolphin mortality and to collect specimens and tissue samples for the agency were quietly ordered late last month to keep their findings confidential. …

      http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/509/749/Gag_order_issued_in_Dolphins_Death_Probe.html


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      • The truth must be told as we are all adults! Is it not criminal to do otherwise?


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      • ion jean ion jean

        Underplaying, obfuscating, demonizing, marginalizing, lobbying, bribing, blackmailing, blacklisting, discriminating, all divide and conquer…ancient military tactics which equal:

        LIES, GENOCIDE (quickly or slowly its all the same), CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, ANIMAL CRUELTY, ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION

        These are the charges, felonies, so where are the judges, juries and prisons to enforce these laws on the books?

        The judge is on his yacht, the jury is working overtime at Walmart and McDonalds and the prisons are overcrowded with the collateral damage of foreign powers attempting to socially engineer a free people!!

        Whew!! Where do we begin to correct this? I will pray to God every day thanks for my good health and clearheadedness!


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        • ion jean ion jean

          Forgot compartmentalization, which is a biggie!


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        • AFTERSHOCK AFTERSHOCK

          Nice rant! A once brilliant playwright once wrote “Brevity be the soul of wit.” You hit on every question.

          So, where is law enforcement? From shores of Fukushima to the spires of power on Wall Street, they’re nowhere to be seen! [...kinda reminds me of an ol'army tune...] The citizenry of the world have been abandoned for a handful of coins. What fools have risen to the top?

          I would only ask that when a child complains of nagging pain in their abdomen, remember who – you – served, when the doctors return with their diagnosis. Justice denied does not mean justice is gone…


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      • AFTERSHOCK AFTERSHOCK

        @xdrfox: Thanks for the Gulf of Mexico flag.

        I followed up the BIN link and found the PDF-based letter at:

        http://wlox.images.worldnow.com/images/incoming/FishSampleLetter.pdf


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  • Somebody wasn’t wearing one of these:

    http://www.radshield.com/

    A New Radiation Protection Breakthrough

    Radiation Shield Technologies (RST) is proud to offer Demron® : the new standard in personal radiation protection. This revolutionary technology is currently produced as full body suits, gloves and boots. Demron™ not only protects against particle ionizing/nuclear radiation (such as Beta and Alpha), but does what NO OTHER full body radiation protection can do:
    shield against X-ray and low-energy Gamma emissions. Demron™ is non-toxic and completely Lead-free.

    Demron® suits are constructed from a unique nanotechnology that far surpasses the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of current nuclear-biological-chemical (NBC) suits that only protect against radioactive particulate sources.

    Demron W Class 2 Ensemble
    RST’s Demron® W Class 2 Ensemble is the only NFPA 1994/2007 class 2 suit to provide total protection for all CBRN threats; chemical warfare agents (CWA’s), toxic industrial chemicals (TIC’s), alpha particles, X radiation, gamma radiation, high energy beta radiation and heat stress.

    They cost about $1,700. He donated 200 of them to Japan.

    The video (FOX, unfortunately) says women are more susceptible to radiation, especially breasts – up until menopause. Might explain, partially, why all the workers are male?

    I guess we’ll all have to wear them, eventually, or starting around now.


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    • Whoopie Whoopie

      NO NO NO!! I DONT WANT TO HAVE TO WEAR ONE!! :(


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    • Spectrometising

      @Pu239….wow!…I can remember way back in olden days when all that was required to comply with the highest nuclear safety standards available at the time were what appeared to be special white paper allergy masks and alpha blocking white suits.

      New colours came out later which probably indicates improvements.

      These specially adapted white paper allergy masks that possibly contained nano fibres demonstrated for all to see that they could only having been developed especially by the most highly of the highly qualified nuclear medicine “and” nuclear physics experts of our time.

      Clearly if “one” casualty is now documented, it must show they were highly effective.

      Tarps were also considered to be very effective at the time. Nuclear safety and high pressure washers have come a long way. And so this blinding progress has now delivered demoron….amazing!!


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    • Spectrometising

      Actually, i do remember Demron being advertised as a donation during the first month of the disaster…..and we never heard anything more on it. Thank’s for recovering this history.


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    • ion jean ion jean

      Yes I’ve heard women are twice as sensitive to radiation…extrapolated down to children and infants We’re into 5 and 10x greater sensitivity…now we are at the cause of the rise in low IQ, ADHD, gluten and lactose intolerance (or more accurately stated “strontium 90 intolerance”), deadly peanut and seafood allergies, cancers of all sorts…

      Ask the old folks you know, before they’re all gone and we succumb to the amnesia the NWO has socially engineered for us!

      Long live the Constitution of The United States!
      Read it like a bible and protect it!


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  • aigeezer aigeezer

    This story interests me because of the contradiction with what Tepco is usually portrayed as doing.

    Taken at face value, Tepco is routinely reporting the occurrence of someone getting sick on the job. Nothing unusual.

    Speculation at Enenews and elsewhere generally has Tepco workers and contract workers “disappearing” in droves.

    So, let the games begin. Why has Tepco almost casually announced the sickness of this worker, with the implication that they are always candid about such things?

    One possible “oopsie” in their propaganda machine is the acknowledgement that they are knowingly hiring laborers who have chronic disease and/or that they assign such people to tasks that would put them at risk.

    Anyone got any hard data on this stuff?


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  • Whoopie Whoopie

    ANTI NUKES got a WIN. How come I’m not happy?
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/07/science/earth/grand-canyon-area-uranium-mines-to-be-blocked-for-20-years.html?_r=1
    Guess the news from Japan is taking a toll this a.m.


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    • Hello, the supposed environmental sensitivity is a fig leaf for the fast breeder construction ongoing and the imprisonment of environmental activists most prominent among them Tim De Christopher. Why such shenanigans as this are reported at all when Fukushima only gets lying puff pieces must devolve to money, I didn’t take it, Neither of us got any of said money. Be happy, at least we don
      t have to smile and lie at the same time


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    • Spectrometising

      After reading the source more carefully i noticed it says the worker had a “chronic condition” and so it proves i do not read carefully enough. I need to meditate to improve my concentration.
      Maybe he was a smoker if this report is accurate.


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  • Kevin Kevin

    The most bewildering aspect of this disaster is the absolutely underwhelming approach Japan has undertaken with respect to managing the crisis. It pales in comparison to the Chernobyl experience where many, many people and approaches were mobilized into action.

    These reports seem to me to work in TEPCO’s favour that they are on top of what is happening and sends the overall message that very very few if any are being impacted by the disaster. No doubt a great many more have been impacted from workers to people abroad yet TEPCO well manages the issue by issuing press releases of this nature. Its an old communications tactic but a very effective one.


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