Published: August 23rd, 2012 at 3:40 am ET
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Title: (Update 2) Fukushima Nuclear Plant Worker Dies of Heart Attack
Source: Jiji Press
Date: Aug 23, 2012
A worker at [Tepco's] crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant died of a heart attack on Wednesday, the utility said Thursday.
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The worker, in his 50s, suffered cardiac arrest when he was installing an additional tank to store contaminated water, TEPCO said. He was confirmed dead after being taken to hospital.
He was the fifth who has died after falling sick during work at the plant
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Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy reported his death cause to TEPCO.
Title: Fukushima nuclear plant worker dies of heart attack
Source: AFP
Date: Aug 23, 2012
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“It doesn’t seem that there was a causal link between his death and radiation because he died of a heart attack,” [company spokesman Jun Oshima] said.
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Asked whether the fatality rate at Fukushima Daiichi was higher than at other nuclear plants, Oshima said direct comparisons were difficult to make, citing the large number of employees and the different nature of the work.
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Much of the work is physically demanding construction work, in contrast to the less exacting operation and inspection required at functioning nuclear plants, the spokesman said.
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See also:
- Study: Cesium-137 immediately damages the heart muscle -- Not slow-acting
- Senior Scientist: Irreversible heart damage for children with 50 Bq/kg of Cs-137
- Fukushima worker has heart attack while working at Reactor No. 1 -- Only 31 years old (VIDEO)
- Officials: Fukushima plant worker death from "overwork" -- Died of heart attack day after he started job
- German TV Interview on Fukushima: More and more people living in highly contaminated places are dying of heart disease because of cesium (VIDEO)
- Former nuclear worker sues Japan gov't over heart attack -- Had been suffering nose bleeds and fatigue
Published: August 23rd, 2012 at 3:40 am ET
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq07VZdbb7g
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Tepco spokesperson (translated captions – Oct 2011)
at 3:40 ".. we think some of them will die in some traffic accident or from some private disease"
at 4:40 ".. according to what we call the rule of Prevention from Radiation, it is mainly their employer or the company employing them that is chargeable for the management of the dose of the workers"
thanks parwie for the reminder.
of course, the above quotes need to be filtered thru a kind of tranlation remix to get the right wording.
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Unfortunately for TEPCO it's in the press how they forced staff to shield dosimeters with lead.
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Tepco's reaction is revolting.
In a nuclear waste dump over here we have dead irradiated workers (2 that the public knows of) in lead coffins.
It would be good to know if the family of this particular worker will be allowed to bury him.
He died trying to fix this for all of us. This is so sad.
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"In a nuclear waste dump over here we have dead irradiated workers (2 that the public knows of) in lead coffins."
Where are you located, B&B?
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Hi Centaur, ich bin in Trier….
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Alles klar.
OK. So… they're not fukushima related victims. Just wanted to get be sure about that.
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TEPCO'S entire reaction has been revolting. I've said it before, our lives are literally in their hands. Who would have thought my destiny belongs to a utility company?
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Cesium exposure causes heart failure. They will continue to lie & deny because that is what they do best.
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Dear Blown Camaro,
You're so sadly correct. My own heart aches that the children aren't getting electrocardiograms and evac as needed. This will get really sad when kids become bedridden, unable to breathe -or die prematurely from cardiac arrest.
I don't see the painful lessons of Chernobyl (in terms of public health) being valued in Japan. I don't understand.
I can only believe that healthcare professionals read and share ENENews and that somehow Japanese healthcare professionals will find information and support here.
Perhaps the truth is so awful that actions to preserve/protect public health are moot? Such a cloud of squid ink!
Aloha.
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I went to work yesterday, and made it home alive. Why didnt I have cardiac arrest? Oh yeah, theres no radiation where I work! TEPCGOV, your lies and mind tricks wont work on me, shame on you for playing these games. WE KNOW rad intake is being underreported. WE KNOW the situation has been out of your control since 3/11. WE KNOW things will only get worse. MAN THE F**K UP and take responsibility for what you have done to your country. ADMIT THE TRUTH NOW! or forever be cowards…
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TheWorldIsBlind: +100%.
Give 'em hell!
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TEPCO has brought us hell – I think its only fair to return the favor.
Does anyone else feel disgusted, outraged? Seriously, this accident is so terrible, and the fact that is not over and really has only just begun is so terribly mind boggling. The future is so bleak for mankind. Ive determined that this single event will be the beginning of the termination of the Japanese culture. Once so rich in tradition, and health, and spirit, will soon be wiped off the plantet. Granted, one day all cultures will no longer exist.
The Earth has been so deeply affected by this accident, that even though I am thousands of miles away – I know for a fact that it has negatively impacted my ecosystem. Doesnt anyone else feel this way? Why the hell do we continue to use nukes to provide or energy supply? DO WE REALLY NEED ELECTRICITY AS A SPECIES?
Is your facebook, twitter, iPhone, world trade – is it really worth the demise of the human race?
All points made, I am sadly afraid it is way too late. Earth is over populated, our resources are being depleted, man made disasters are releasing volatile chemicals and
poisons – The World is Blind
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The workers at Fukushima will never be forgotten…they deserve much more praise and monetray reward for the suicide work they do. How terrible that we don't even know the name of the dead worker and can't console his family personally. This Big Brother shield of silence is one more thing I will remember. Wrongs on a very long list…
Sometimes civilizations (like people) have to hit rock bottom before they can begin again. We are approaching that point. I lived through the fallout shelter madness of the Cold War and once again find nuclear energy the number one villain trying to exterminate mankind. We can't defeat the million-year deadly isotopes already unleashed. That ship has sailed.
But don't toss out the good technology that has accompanied and enriched the nucleocrats. We have for the first time a global communicator that can harness the brainpower of billions. The greatest invention in mankind…the World Wide Web and devices to access it for billions. That kind of brain power will be harnessed in the coming decades to mold the future policies of the world.
Your offspring will follow the path of the Internet pioneers. Secretive governments will be forever on the defensive. The tables are turned…we see through them now and report all their evils. They can run, but not hide.
Use the Information Technology Revolution for good and defang the Big Brothers and Dr. Frankensteins. This is your Matrix. Not theirs.
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Sickputer, 100% agree we need to focus our collective "electronic mind" on solutions. Important to preserve freedom to communicate no matter the cost. It also wouldn't be a bad idea to have a fallback communication plan.
Remember traveling in Europe & behind the Iron Curtain in the 1960's during the Czech Uprising. Other Soviet Satellite countries on high alert. Eery, chilling presence of soldiers on every street corner prepared to shoot civilians for any hint of unrest …. We were not prepared to visit during this type of military occupation.
The people had found brilliant and subtle means to communicate. Short wave radio and Radio Free Europe were a couple of the methods used to communicate.
IMHO the Japanese people who may find Internet access restricted might consider some of the older "tried and true" methods of getting the word out.
Certainly TEPCO will not tell the truth. Japanese MSM will not tell the truth. The government and Keiretsu also form a silent united front of opposition to those who want the truth told, and a serious effort made to find a solution to the nuclear crisis in Japan.
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Longer post would be OT, so I'll summarize by saying electronic freedom is under attack. If Internet freedom is restricted, TPTB can go about their dirty business w/o intervention, until "we the people" re-invent the means to effectively communicate. I view all of this as the collective brilliance of the human race vs. the Troglodytes who want to continue the status quo, at the cost of raping and pillaging the planet and every life form in existence here.
TEPCO spokesman an example of Troglodytes in action. He's just a puppet actor, speaking on behalf of his controllers.
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See Electronic Freedom Foundation, EFF.
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Sorry, I meant the govt. and Keiretsu form a solid front of opposition to truth being told, and oppose all efforts to find a solution to the nuclear crisis in Japan ….
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Well, yes, I think we can still have electricity and data networks, that's not the actual problem.
The problem is generating it, and the secondary thing is efficiency.
Use renewables, the dramas go away. You can leave your lights on and the computer logged in when you use clean renewable energy.
Let's not try to go backwards here, just think and move forward.
Stop uranium mining. Start renewables.
Simple.
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Yes, I'm disgusted, outraged, WorldIsBlind. If we want to save electricity, the first thing we should do is to shut down nuclear, it is a net consumer of energy. Nuclear exists not to produce electricity, but so its owners can make money, largely from the weapons industry. People must refuse to subsidize their own destruction as we are now, in order for a few men to make bombs that will further disfigure and destroy innocent children across the world.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-the-children-of-fallujah–families-fight-back-7682416.html
http://educate-yourself.org/du/falloutoniraqbabies12jun08.shtml
http://libcom.org/news/fallout-us-seige-fallujah-worse-hiroshima%E2%80%99s-19082010
Nuclear Power Plant Fuel–a source of Plutonium for Weapons?
Many people may not realize that every nuclear power plant — as a normal part of the fissioning process — produces plutonium. Plutonium and/or highly-enriched uranium are essential ingredients of nuclear bombs.
Every year the thousand-megawatt Callaway reactor in Missouri, for example, produces an estimated 293 kilograms of plutonium 1. — enough plutonium every year to make forty nuclear bombs (each containing about 7.3 kilograms [16 pounds] of mixed isotopes of plutonium per bomb).2
If the nuclear power reactor continues operating for a total of 30 years, it will have produced enough plutonium for at least 1200 bombs.
http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/plutbomb.htm
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Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons: Making the Connections
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"Atoms For Peace"
For as long as there has been federal control of nuclear research and materials, there has been an interest in using commercial nuclear reactors as a source of materia- ls to make weapons. In the early 1950's it was recognized that the weapons program would require more plutonium than could be furnished by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). One suggestion, made by Dr. Charles A. Thomas, then executive vice-president of Monsanto Chemical Company, was to create a dual purpose plutonium reactor, on which could produce plutonium for weapons, and electricity for commercial use.3
A 1951 study undertaken by the AEC concluded that commercial nuclear reactors would not be economically feasible if they were used solely to produce electricity; they would be, however, if they also produced plutonium which could be sold. Utilities themselves were only mildly intrigued with the notion of being able to produce "too cheap to meter electricity," and only so long as someone else took over the responsibility for the waste products, and indemnified them against catastrophic nuclear plant accidents.
http://www.neis.org/literature/Brochures/weapcon.htm
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Fukushima Daiichi: From Nuclear Power Plant to Nuclear Weapon
by Prof. Anthony Hall
While the global public has been fooled into thinking that the supposedly civilian branch of the nuclear industry is totally separate from its dominant military branch, this distinction is really a phantom.From its inception the deployment of nuclear energy to generate electricity was designed to give PR cover to the hugely lucrative and totally immoral business of building nuclear weapons. Indeed, to this day the bomb builders draw some of their ingredients such as tritium for their weapons of mass destruction for the operation of nuclear power plants.
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/feb/03/sequoyah-to-produce-bomb-grade-material/
The façade of duality makes it difficult to see what is really transpiring at Fukushima. At Fukushima we are witnessing an installation built for the seemingly benign purpose of generating electric power suddenly transformed into a stationary weapon piled high with fissionable material with far more potential for mass destruction than a vast arsenal of large nuclear bombs.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31401
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2 NoNukes: Monsteranto at work way back when, eh? One of the biggest Troglodyte offenders on the planet, IMHO.
Great commentary, thanks.
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2 NoNukes, also appreciate your posting footnoted articles and sources with a track record. Lends credibility when there are citations. Thanks again. Bookmarking for my personal library.
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Yes, NoNukes, Nuclear needs to go. Would you please write to me off-site here:
HoTaters@hush.com
Thinking you live in general proximity of my area and would like to discuss ideas, thanks.
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RE: the TEPCO and global nuclear "spin", all of this makes me want to move far, far away, beyond the reach of the monstrous thinking which created this mess. As far as I can tell, the jungles of Borneo, the farthest reaches of Antarctica, and the most remote areas near the North Pole are not far enough to recover innocence lost …. Wish it were possible to remove myself from the influence of those who will extract everything they can from the planet and life. Life-sucking monsters, they are. (In a Yoda-like mood today.)
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Only Yoda met them head-on (literally). He wasn't running away ….
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HoTaters, I first misread your comment (with incredulity) as "Only Noda…."
Whew!
Thanks all for an interesting thread, and especially to NoNukes for those high-content posts.
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Exactly
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They can lie about the workers dying all day long, but they can't lie about the birthrate statistics and get away with it. That's why they're not being released to anyone outside a small circle of those who have too much to lose to talk.
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The worker should be put to rest with full honors and gratitude, he or she was a hero of Japan.
Who will step up to the plate and replace.
Non violent criminals should be allowed to work at plant for early release and pay their debt to society, older people should be allowed to play a part as a volunteer if they want, we can not be picky, workers are at a premium, someone has to do the dirty
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In the months since Japan's nuke nightmare, there has been no indication that anything has been done to mitigate the damage; the government and TEPCO have been spinning their wheels. The constant lies, changes in the amounts of radiation that are acceptable, exporting food to various nations despite the levels of radiation and even saying that this worker died of a heart attack instead of heart damage due to radiation are distractions to give them time.
The idea of using prisoner or the elderly is repugnant, their lives are just as important as anyone else. No doubt they will sicken and die because of this nightmare; but I do not believe that putting them into the nuclear plant will make any difference. There simply is nothing to be done to stop what is happening.
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Yes, repugnant is a fitting term. + 1 million
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Just seeing Jun Oshima's face on a video is enough to literally make me nauseous. Seriously, I'm literally physically sickened, every time I see his face. Total visceral reaction.
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Just to clarify on a volunteer basis, their is no escaping that the present workers are over exposed and will probably meet a ugly end, who will replace them, look at the workers they use just now at the margins of society ( exceptions to all rules ), would you work there, it will take a special person to work there, a hero in my mind.
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True we can not fully stop but we must dispose of all the debris, fuel rods in ocean, stop ground water and leaks and mitigate as far as possible and the sooner the better and that will mean people becoming radiated sorry but that is the facts, be a hero and apply, I don't have the guts do you.
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It's all governments and all nuclear industries that are trying to sweep this disaster under the carpet.
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Japanese Maff has been promoting "Let's eat Fukushima produce and support!" but now they have gone one step further by requesting support from University canteens, caterers, hospitals and care homes to use Fukushima produce. I think the message is clear "Let's feed and kill them fast"
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…and TV station was advertising "Eat as much seafood as you can day tour" only 200 km away from Fukushima Daiichi. The thought of it is really sickening but for someone to actually organise such gastronomic trip is unreal.
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