Report: Worker dies while decontaminating in Fukushima

Published: October 11th, 2011 at 2:49 pm ET
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SOURCE: News: Sending people to hell, Fukushima Diary, October 10, 2011

[...] a man died all of a sudden while he was decontaminating in Date shi of Fukushima. [...]

@touchan3 [Oct. 9 at 10:00p EDT]

校庭の除染や瓦礫処理に携わってた作業員の方が突然死です…伊達市

He was involved in decontamination of school play grounds and rubble.

@touchan3 [Oct. 10 at 12:00a EDT]

会社の社長が所属するRCクラブの方です、先日田んぼで倒れたそうです。

When someone found him, he was dead in the rice field.

Published: October 11th, 2011 at 2:49 pm ET
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36 comments to Report: Worker dies while decontaminating in Fukushima

  • Grampybone Grampybone

    That’s death #4 for the record. Nuclear kills people it’s a proven undeniable fact for all those nuclear pimps out there. Face reality or it will face you. This guy was cleaning up waste and dropped dead. Goes to show how potent the waste is here despite government reports of low level contamination.


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    • Darth

      Let’s wait to see what the officials have to say. This person would have had to found the gold mine of nuclear radiation to die from acute radiation poisoning.


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      • TheWorldIsBlind

        decontamination – aka just breath in and let all the shit go into ur lungs – ull be aaite.

        jap’s a wrap.

        i mean i didnt think ppl were this stupid.

        i feel no sympathy for stupidity.


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      • farawayfan farawayfan

        But it doesn’t have to be acute poisoning at this point. After six months of uncontrolled dosing with numerous nuclides and emitters, there could easily be chronic conditions. If he died of a heart attack, it certainly could have been brought on by gradual uncontrolled whole body dosing, external and internal.

        But, as you said, we’ll see, although I wouldn’t trust a word of any of these TEPCO/Gov’t officials.


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      • “Acute” … perhaps not his worker’s first clean up rodeo? 7 months now down the rad rabbit hole. As Sickputer reminds, “accumulation” will soon become the word of the day. Everyday. This is going to be like the US/Iraq/Afghanistan body count … a slow trickle with many deaths ignored. Friendly fire will continue to NOT make the news. The rest of us? Just collateral damage…and We will receive the same silent reviews.


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        • Whoopie Whoopie

          Wow, just wow…Pali­n is in South Korea calling for Regime Change?
          In her speech in South Korea, she called in effect, for the overthrow of the North Korean Regime, and also…for China to ditch their rulers
          http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/10/116_96469.html
          “Palin’s statement drew attention as it came at a particular­ly precarious time for South and North Korean relations amid lingering tension on the Korean Peninsula.
          Good grief, someone SHUT THIS WOMAN UP!!


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          • Cataclysmic Cataclysmic

            Funny thing is, that cable tv is the lifeline for Palin. I turned off the cable, now I rarely hear her name… unless of course, Jon Stewart is using it (I watch online). Recently, he joked about the fraud she committed accepting campaign donations for her run for prez.. even though she had decided back in June(according to Bristol) that she was not running.. maybe this final fraud will be her undoing. The lesson is the “machine” that supports agitators like Palin, Beck and the Cheese stinker guy. The machine is designed to separate us from each other.. we are to call names and shoot each other, not exchange ideas and turn on the corpocracy… got to love propagand it has been working brilliantly.


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          • Steven Steven

            From your link :

            “North Korea could conduct a long-range missile or third nuclear test”

            I’ve always wondered why they feel the need to test those things so often. What was the total figure for the USA and USSR – something in the thousands I believe. Did any of them fail to detonate? And if not, why keep testing once apparent that they so clearly ‘got it right’?


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          • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

            @Steven,

            2053 tests in total…. :-(


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          • Elenin Velikovsky Elenin Velikovsky

            Mornin’ Steven and all…Reportin’
            for duty (he squats, releases a good ol’ Cavalry
            bean-fart!).
            It seems that “tests” are used for media-propaganda
            advantage, in particular these recent years, more
            emphasis on the News-cycle management in advance
            of the Dreaded Test Which May Threaten the Stability…
            etc. etc…..so…
            The Chinee learned the Games WE taught them to play.
            And they Mastered them all, and left us in the dust.
            I would think Aussies are or ought to be conscious of
            that Big Shipping Giant Red Dragon…we are all
            playing a fantasy game about economics, money,
            the value versus the price of things….


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    • dharmasyd

      That’s death #4 for the record…

      Yes. Yes. so far as we’ve been told, but…….

      We’ll really never know.

      The only safe and sane thing to do until humanity grows up sufficiently to be able to manage this awesome power of the stars with equanimity, respect, responsibility, and without ego, greed, need, and other forms of hubris.

      Perhaps this will be a thousand years from now. But until we learn to respect this awesome nuclear power, we are not ready to use it for anything. It kills.


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  • dpl dpl

    another one bites the radioactive dust


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  • StillJill StillJill

    Yeah,…poor CB got chastised for “Jap”,…let’s try our best not to make slurrrrrs, K?


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  • CB CB

    Non Fukushima related. Keep a close eye on this, have a plan and keep a full tank of gas. They say the volcano’s on the Canary Islands could cause a Mega Tsunami that would hit the Eastcoast of the USA. Wave would reach 300 meters. The volcano is very active right now.


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  • patb2009

    High ground, upstairs, and know how to grab a piece of flotsam and climb on top.


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  • jimbojamesiv

    I can’t believe that people still live in Fukushima.

    I understand that Tokyo was mislead into believing that they were safe, but I can’t believe that people still live in Fukushima.

    Granted, I agree with the World is Blind, and that Japan is toast.


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  • lam335 lam335

    If this man happened to inhale a small bit of plutonium, could that kill him very quickly? I remember hearing that Pu is highly toxic even aside from its radiological status as a nasty alpha emitter. Is it correct to guess that the alpha particles primarily kill by inducing cancers/tumors, which would take some time to develop?


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    • Sickputer

      Takes time to kill with lung cancer or bone cancer. Lots of research on plutoium exposure:

      http://www.ieer.org/ensec/no-3/puhealth.html

      Another source below: Excerpt:

      “If somebody inhales plutonium dust, he won’t notice anything special. Only 10 to 50 years later is it possible that lung and bone cancer may develop. Once in the lungs, the plutonium dust stays there for many years: sparks that fail to extinguish. Ten per cent of the original dose in the lungs can still be found there after fifteen years (as experiments with beagle dogs have shown). Very slowly the particles move to the lymph nodes of the lungs. When it appears in the blood plutonium “seeks” the bones and the liver.”

      …..during fires in the US nuclear weapons complex Rocky Flats near Denver in 1957 and 1969 clouds of smoke containing plutonium dust spread over the town.

      Atmospheric testing between 1945 and 1963 brought 4.2 tons of plutonium dust directly into the environment. Most of this went up high into the stratosphere. There it was diluted and gradually came down.”

      http://www.nvmp.org/pluto4.htm


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  • ocifferdave ocifferdave

    I wonder if I was bombarded by neutrons, and my blood being a saline solution of sorts…would the juice inside ocifferdave turn into a kind of sulfur (I hope I spelled that wrong for Steven’s sake)?


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    • It can be spelled either way:
      Sulfur – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur

      (Sulfur or sulphur) is the chemical element with atomic number 16, represented by the symbol S. It is an abundant, multivalent non-metal. At normal conditions …

      He just has a hard time admitting toxicity is indeed in the air we breathe. ‘
      new friend with sore throat. (raining constantly here in WA) …

      Occiferdave. You live in washington right…
      Do you have a dosimeter or a geiger counter?
      Stay out of the fog, and rain and soon to be sleet and snow…
      Emmy.


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    • dharmasyd

      Yes. My dictionary does not recognize Ociffer. But don’t change it. I like it. It has a certain “je nais c’est quoi!”

      Sulphfur is fine aussi!


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    • Steven Steven

      Am I now to be held accountable for non-English spelling habits? In Australia as in England (the birthplace of the English language) it is spelled SULPHUR. Do you have a good working knowledge of our spelling customs?

      And since you mention it again, I’ll try again; sulpher dioxide is a HIGHLY TOXIC substance and in no way similar to sulphur, which has been used for thousands of years to preserve foods etc. Again, my concern for the truth about this was genuine. Please check links and be clear on this.

      http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts116.pdf

      http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090713103028AA0Wtun


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      • Elenin Velikovsky Elenin Velikovsky

        Take Up the White Man’s Burden…..
        I can’t believe you guys are back at the Sulfur debate.
        I believe that Spelling Implies Meaning, and we ought
        to be Consistent, there-fore, Sulphur is Culturally
        comfortable, but so is Bombay, and not, Mumbai.
        Anyway, I wanted to jump in to the sulphur debate at
        the point where I couldn’t believe somebody didn’t
        throw in the classic Hydrogen Sulfide, the “eggwater”
        of my Camarillo Day Camp Summers.
        H2SO4…Stinky, came up in the campground plumbing.
        Steven, Tacoma, NoPrev…did you see the youtube guy
        reporting Steam Vents Puffing at such places as
        Amboy, and Geyser Mountain, California?
        Bubble Bubble Oil and Rubble…


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  • Elenin Velikovsky Elenin Velikovsky

    Dave! Iam335!…Notmilk.com…the notmilkman says that
    sulfur-containing foods,
    particularly Chicken and Eggs, are actually more
    destructive to the bloodstream than “Red Meat” which
    has been disdained by supposedly healthier eaters.
    Sulfurous foods make acidic blood, leach calcium from bones,
    and a tendency toward jaundice.
    Taking out the Plutonium,
    inhaled, they say good Ruck Chuck, but possibly
    ingested can be helped out with metal-binding greens
    like chlorella, etc.


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  • “0.09 means,”even only gamma ray is 0.09″.
    Strontium causes leukemia. Plutonium,americium,curium are way worse. but they emit beta and alpha.
    It’s really hard for you to pick it up.”

    Had to do research maybe lots of you are more aware then me. This article was a learning experience.

    So what we have is a measurement of 0.09 mcS/hr of only gamma radiation. And a anti nuke reporter/reader miscommunicating. Hey thats just background radiation. No wait background gamma. The natural outdoor exposure in Great Britain ranges from 2 to 4 nSv/h (nanosieverts per hour).[15] From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray#Health_effects

    nano- |ˈnønoʊ| |ˈnanəʊ|
    combining form
    denoting a factor of 10 −9 (used commonly in units of measurement): : nanosecond.

    VS Micro- (used commonly in units of measurement) denoting a factor of one millionth (10 −6): : microfarad.


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  • So you multiply reading by 10 to the power of negative three to get 90nSv twenty to forty times background level in Britain.


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