Published: February 21st, 2012 at 10:08 am ET
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Title: How the Yakuza went nuclear
Source: Telegraph
Author: Jake Adelstein
Date: 11:30AM GMT 21 Feb 2012
[...] recruits were hard to find. Officials in Fukushima reportedly told local businesses, “Bring us the living dead. People no one will miss.” [...]
The labour crunch was eased somewhat when the Japanese government and Tepco raised the “safe” radiation exposure levels at the plant from pre-earthquake levels of 130-180cpm (radiation exposure per minute) to 100,000cpm. [...]
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It’s often reported that the radiation exposure limit for workers was increased from 100 millisieverts per year to 250, a 2.5-fold increase.
Published: February 21st, 2012 at 10:08 am ET
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i am sure that most of us have unknowingly ingested some...
sending...
TEPCO if you read this PREPARE to burn in HELL for raising Radiation Levels. You are CONSIDERED MURDERERS MARK
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Perhaps I have misjudged to some extent the Japanese mafia. They are filling a need that no one else is willing to do in Japan…the cowardice of Tepco is shameful though and they need to provide workers with all the safety equipment no matetr the cost.
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This article in today's Telegraph left m speachless;
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A natural disaster that cost the lives of thousands of people was ignored in favour of a nuclear 'disaster’ that never was, argues Michael Hanlon.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9094430/The-world-has-forgotten-the-real-victims-of-Fukushima.html
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The Telegraph article was bad enough, but the comments left me sputtering. One aspect did hit home personally though, the accusation that we 'alarmists' want to see loads of people dieing just to prove ourselves right. While of course I wish nobody was going to die from this, we all know the truth is that the death toll is going to stagger the mind of man. I just wish I could cram the newspaper reports of the inevitable deaths down these 'deniers' throats a la "misery" w/Kathy Bates. No, what I really wish is that somehow people like that reporter could be forced to publicly acknowledge how stunningly wrong they are. I guess being a shill means never having to say "I'm sorry".
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Faulty Data Guided U.S. After Japan Nuclear Accident
BY PETER LANDERS
WASHINGTON—In the days after Japan's 2011 nuclear accident, the U.S. surprised the world by ordering a 50-mile evacuation zone for U.S. citizens, far larger than Japan's own zone. That sowed fear and confusion.
Now, almost a year after the accident, newly released transcripts of discussions by U.S. officials give the clearest picture yet of how that move was based at least in part on faulty information about whether spent fuel rods in one reactor had been exposed.
The documents, released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by The Wall Street Journal and other organizations, consist of transcripts …
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204909104577237491247282070.html
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