Published: October 6th, 2012 at 5:52 pm ET
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Title: Fukushima faces serious shortage of nurses after nuclear disaster
Source: Mainichi
Date: Oct 2, 2012
h/t Fukushima Diary
Fukushima Prefecture faces a serious shortage of nurses and health workers, due largely to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, it has emerged.[...]
The biggest reason for this is that nurses with children have evacuated out of the prefecture due to fears about the effects of radiation.
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it is said there has been no end to the departure of workers.
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the situation has been particularly bad in Fukushima Prefecture due to the nuclear disaster, and it is expected to continue for a long time.
“The shortage of regular nurses and health nurses was an issue even before the disaster, but since the nuclear disaster, the situation has gotten unusually serious,” said Midori Suzuki, a senior director of the Fukushima Nursing Association. “I want the government to widen its awareness of what is hindering restoration.”
Published: October 6th, 2012 at 5:52 pm ET
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I wonder how the nuclear disaster of Fukudaiichi would have been dealt with if Japan was a communist system..
In a capitalist system nuclear disasters are ''privatized''…
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You can't get any more socialist (communism is a extreme form of socialism) than nuclear energy. Governments mandate nuclear plants. The closest capitalism gets to nuclear energy is, corporations and shareholders collect the profits (the comparison ends their) and taxpayers (little people) share the losses (this is socialism). And there are many losses when it comes to cleanups or even decommissioning besides the daily fallout release exposures.
Ever get to vote on nuclear energy in whatever part of the world you live in?… Neither did the Japanese.
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@razz,
I understand what you say.
But, the part of the world i live in is also part of the world you live in. Calling the world a commune we have to live in/on is how it is. We can ignore socialism and be splintered as can be while radio-nuclides do not follow systems and rules we humans have made up. Borders? Flags? right wing? left wing? health? money?
I think nuke power has one goal: death.
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OMG!
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No human political system can deal with a nuclear disaster! Have the clever heads not learned that by now?
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from the article
"The number of young people receiving checkups is expected to increase in line with the Oct. 1 launch of a system providing free medical care to people aged 18 or under, and the association remains concerned about the situation, which could hinder health checks, saying a shortage of people in the medical profession could impede local restoration efforts."
how are the hospitals going to manage the health of the community and the necessary health checks for the population because of the radiation?
answer
they are not going to be able to cope, they are not able to cope! is this the reason that the thyroid checks on the children stopped at 40,000 with 260,000 un tested?
and what about the 100,000`s of children in these 3 prefectures?…
October 3rd, 2012
"New radiation readings were taken by helicopter in Japan. The survey conspicuously avoids reading
Saitama,
Tokyo
and Chiba prefectures.
All three are areas known to have significant areas of contamination."
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=7609
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while im at it, from the article
"Housing has also proved a problem. One nurse who wanted to return from Tokyo to work in the Fukushima Prefecture city of Iwaki was told that there was a waiting list of 200 people for an apartment, so she gave up on returning to work.
The Fukushima Nursing Association sought nurses and other medical workers from around the nation and 36 applied, but due to a lack of housing and other problems, only seven have been able to start working."
housing issues?
radiation issues!
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Arc, I remember (with my likker filled half a brain cell) that Japanese people live/eat and sleep on the floor. Housing problem… yes, very much so..
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And living in Holland as a world citizen sitting on the floor and eating while sitting on the floor it is not so different from people in Japan..
i feel a song boiling up!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmnLBPENNys
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Citizen of the Planet – Alanis Morissette NEW SONG
"fly back my nuclear"
shes an anti nuke rebel!
and cute too!
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I think so too! and vegan, btw!
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Pray for the guardians to come and help…
http://youtu.be/7q0reAgBMYA
The smart nurses are leaving FUKU area and the smartest are leaving Japan entirely… especially those who want healthy kids seventy seven generations into the future.
The choice is now. We can use all of the help we can get.
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“I want the government to widen its awareness of what is hindering restoration.”
In short, intelligence.
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Iwaki received an extra dose of Fukushima fallout and it is showing up in the test results (thyroid exams) of kids first. The government then elects to 'follow' the results unless the growths are rather large. 'Follow' means 'observe' without treatment.
The city of Iwaki should be evacuated rather than resettled. With time, the radiological results will be Chernobyl on steroids.
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follow up also means not doing biopsies on the known cysts (30% of kids in one area), giving them time to metastasise and oops, too late.
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Out of love we have children.. Love!!!
But
What is the love for our children worth if we think electricity generating is worth more than kids?
I think our children would not want to hear that..
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oh, i thought it was big, bright, shiny things means more sex.
we need more electricity for bigger, brighter shiny things to get more sex.
the children are a side effect.
(tongue in cheek here
)
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Areas around Chernobyl have up to 85% problems around birth and newborns… That rate is rising with each generation.
No way to hide all of that, but they can try and fudge the numbers all they want, for as long as they want. The truth will catch up to them, no matter where they try to hide, even behind smiles.
The tide is carrying away the gift of health. That tide is going out…
There is a price to pay for lies, deception and greed.
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Solar is so much better than nuke
Sea change has occurred.
See here for proof of solar at 3 cents per kWH, most of the country USA pays 12 cents to 36 cents.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/renewable-and-energy-efficiency.html
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Nurses are intelligent people, I would leave to, what would you do stay and become a hero, for what end as long as their is no containment it is pointless, do you agree.
How do we contain or at least mitigate, you tell me anybody have any. Right ideas, or do you give up and come to the conclusion their is nothing we can do.
Not without a fight.
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Lab tests of Gundersen's samples from Tokyo showed dangerously high radiation levels (in all samples). And the U.S. is contaminated, thanks to the failed concept of using nuclear reactors.
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Nurses aren't the only ones fleeing Fukushima —–>
"The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said this week that the number of people moving out of Fukushima Prefecture in the last six months has reached 25,606, creating the highest recorded population exodus of any prefecture in that six-month period."
http://enformable.tumblr.com/post/32671018914/the-ministry-of-internal-affairs-and
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