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Mainichi: Fukushima workers stood above highly radioactive rubble — “I had numbness in my toes for several months but I did not go to hospital”

Published: January 12th, 2013 at 11:51 pm ET
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Title: Fukushima nuke plant workers not checked for radiation doses to arms, legs
Source: Mainichi
Date: January 04, 2013
h/t Anonymous tip

Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant workers who struggled to bring the nuclear crisis under control in its first few months were only checked for radiation exposure to the torso despite the presence of highly radioactive rubble, according to former employees of plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) and other sources.

[...] radiation dosages from some rubble under his feet topped 100 millisieverts. Several hundred people were working around the building at the time, the onetime TEPCO employee says. [...]

”I had numbness in my toes for several months but I did not go to hospital because I thought it was due to the unsanitary environment,” he recalls. [...]

See also: Translated Tepco Testimony: "The moment I entered the reactor building, the soles of my shoes melted" -- Very high levels of radiation and temperature

Published: January 12th, 2013 at 11:51 pm ET
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January 12th, 2013 | Category: Fukushima Daiichi, Japan (Fukushima)
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4 comments to Mainichi: Fukushima workers stood above highly radioactive rubble — “I had numbness in my toes for several months but I did not go to hospital”

  • TheBigPicture TheBigPicture
    January 13, 2013 at 2:18 am

    Unfortunately, the radiation gets in you, and stays.


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  • or-well
    January 13, 2013 at 8:10 am

    Any finding of rad levels
    bad for the health
    (based on false science
    bought by nuke wealth)
    will be reported
    timely and quick.
    (It's just not something
    you should expect.)
    Outside of the circle
    of NOBS*
    internal exposure only kills hicks
    with organs inside – a most human quirkle.
    False levels, false science,
    lies and denial -
    please go to your deaths
    wearing a smile.

    *Nuclear Oriented Bad Science
    as per CaptD.


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  • or-well
    January 13, 2013 at 8:17 am

    No imminent threat.
    No cause for worry!
    Oh…we mean
    too long ago,
    awfully sorry,
    no causative links.
    Same old story -
    negligent worker,
    stress, radio-noia
    caused your "heart blinks",
    or illicit drugs -
    were you hired
    by Yakuza employer?
    Go ahead, chase your case
    all over Japan,
    for all like you
    we've got a good plan -
    we'll deflect and cost you
    plenty of Yen
    or make you an example
    all will understand.
    When you get desparate
    for Justice denied
    we'll see what it takes
    for your silence to buy.


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