Fukushima nuclear plant worker in coma after collapsing at site, The Mainichi Daily News, Jan. 10, 2012:
- Worker in his 60s
- In a coma after collapsing at the site
- Has been in a state of cardiac and respiratory arrest
- Exposed to 52 microsieverts of radiation on Jan. 9
- TEPCO is trying to confirm how long he has been working at nuclear plants and how much accumulated radiation doses he has been exposed to so far
- Since the outbreak of the nuclear crisis in March last year, three workers have died of sickness and other causes
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Three workers have died. The three that were probably carefully vetted to determine they either had unrelated disease, or a death that could be made to appear unrelated to the radiation.
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Sound high,
but have a look of how many People worked there already in the last Months (above 20.000)
and look for the Health Status of this People,
it is no surprise for me that we see this Numbers!
But Tepco is very ill advised to use this old People
without a full medical Check-Up!
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Sorry my post wasn’t clear. I meant that these three are the only ones that have been released, because they could be explained away with non-radiation causes. I believe there are large numbers of radiation-related sick and dead workers that are simply “disappeared”….
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@human0815 “Tepco is very ill advised to use this old People
without a full medical Check-Up!” Probably getting hard to find health YOUNG people willing to commit suicide or chemical castration by working in the highly radioactive environment. Young people may also have children at home they fear they might contaminate with personal radioactivity..and OH..they want be there to watch their children grow up…??
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Hundreds are missing, propable dead, they just bury them in silence
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Let’s see, I’m not a doctor, but if he has been in a state of cardiac and respiratory arrest for very long he’s not in a coma – he’s dead.
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Considering the “close working relationship” between TEPCO and the Yakuza , it is no wonder that hundreds of workers are not “accounted for” by TEPCO…
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I would ask the question: 52 microsieverts of WHAT?
The sievert business is a fudge to get somewhere near how damaging a specific exposure might be. Of course, we don’t necessarily distinguish between external exposure and a dose from ingested material. That’s just one thing. And, clearly, the alpha beta gamma stuff is dangerous/less dangerous depending on whether internal or external.
But what we often DO NOT hear about is neutron exposure.
I guess that this would be played down, even IF monitored, because of the implication of ongoing fission etc.
It would be sanguine to assume quietly that there is NO monitoring going on at the site. A better bet is that tepco are indeed monitoring everything they can, just in case claims or something else comes back to bite them on the bum – and we might just be talking about what happens when the assets are taken over by the local government, and/or who gets the best jobs in the new set up. So, anyone with an eye to the future would naturally be recording whatever – conversations, radiation, you name it.
We should consider that, whatever the pretence, tepco and others are indeed measuring radiation exposure, and doing so to quite a detailed level.
If we look at reported health issues in this light we may be able to reach some interesting alternative conclusions.
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I would like to state for the record that ENENEWS has recorded 4 deaths from radiation in past articles. There are possibly more cases of sick workers that cannot be disclosed due to TEPCO’s iron grip. The shameless hiding of the irradiated will come to an end when they can’t find space to store the bodies. If 4 people are already dead it would be folly to say only 3 have been killed from radiation. Don’t forget TEPCO also has the death of a journalist on their hands after blasting him in the chest with a 12gauge.
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confirmed and roumered Fukushima plant worker deaths:
March 11- 3 workers died on site at the start “due to the quake and tsunami” and not radiation, 1 trapped in a crane, 2 swept out to sea.
May 14 one 60 year old worker in full protective gear – cause unannounced
http://enenews.com/fukushima-plant-worker-dies-put-full-protective-suit-prevent-radiation-exposure
Aug 30 one 40 year old died of acute leukaemia, http://enenews.com/40-year-old-fukushima-radiation-worker-dies-of-acute-leukemia-after-working-at-plant-for-week-checkup-showed-no-prior-health-problems
Oct 6th one 50 year old worker cause unannounced
http://enenews.com/3rd-fukushima-nuke-worker-dead
Oct 11th
http://enenews.com/report-worker-dies-while-decontaminating-in-fukushima
Oct 25 one 21 year old of heart attack, unconfirmed
http://enenews.com/interview-local-says-unlisted-fukushima-workers-who-cleanup-highly-radioactive-debris-are-held-captive-until-they-die-then-marked-as-missing-police-guards-also-dying-video/comment-page-1
Nov 13 unconfirmed one 40 year old fire rescue worker
http://enenews.com/fireman-dies-after-working-in-fukushima-after-quake-and-being-internally-exposed-to-radiation-vomited-blood-frequently-and-finally-died-of-renal-failure-video
Dec 12 one 60 year old found dead in a car after decon clean up due to a heart attack.
http://enenews.com/dead-cleanup-worker-removed-sludge-drains-contaminated-area-hours-before-death-exceptional-unease-govt-spokesman
Then there were those whose feet got irradiated – 3 guys – how are they now?
And did the 52 sick recover?
http://enenews.com/52-fukushima-workers-hit-with-high-fever-diarrhea-and-vomiting-some-hospitalized-only-3-test-positive-for-flu-virus
Hope that is useful.
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