Report: “Makers and workers are already withdrawing” from Fukushima — ABC investigates plant secrecy (VIDEO)

Published: December 7th, 2011 at 10:30 am ET
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Actual Fukushima worker talks ,water purifying system has never worked, Fukushima Diary by Mochizuki on December 6, 2011:

[...] These are the [Dec. 5 translated] tweets of actual Fukushima worker, Happy20790. [...]

The contaminated water leaks a lot recently.  [...]

Now the gutter is directly connected to the sea. They must be shut down or a dam must be made. Currently every time it rains, radiation on the ground and radiation stuck to the plants flow into the sea directly.

Makers and workers are already withdrawing from Fukushima plants, but Tepco has no long term plan. [...]

Fukushima secrecy over workers and conditions, ABC AU, Dec. 7, 2011:

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TONY EASTLEY: Still in Japan and the ABC has obtained documents revealing the lengths being taken to keep work at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant secret and to stop workers there from actually talking to the media. [...]

MARK WILLACY: [...] It’s dirty and dangerous work, and some workers claim they’re being exposed and exploited. [...]

“I was not told how much radiation I would be exposed to or how high the radiation would be,” says this man who worked at the Fukushima plant during the meltdowns. “They just gave me an anorak to wear and sent me to work. I worked at installing vents inside the reactor buildings to get rid of the steam so we could avert another explosion,” he tells me. [...]

The ABC has obtained a document drawn up by one of the Fukushima subcontractors. It demands that its employees at the plant keep all of their work secret and under no circumstances are they permitted to talk to the media. [...]

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Published: December 7th, 2011 at 10:30 am ET
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