Latest Generation Of Hibakusha: Fukushima Cleanup Workers
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After the tsunami caused the meltdowns at the plant in March 2011, Yoshikawa and his wife fled from the town of Namie. They now live in evacuee housing provided by the prefectural government in the nearby city of Iwaki.
Yoshikawa worked at the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant, which was also hit by the tsunami but shut down properly. Whenever he talked with workers toiling at the No. 1 nuclear plant, he heard about their fears of radiation contamination and low morale.
“They used us and threw us away,” he quoted an acquaintance as saying. The acquaintance could not return to the work site because he had been exposed to radiation above the limit immediately after the accident. He later quit his job at a TEPCO subcontractor.
Yoshikawa said many workers and their families hide the fact that they work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant because they fear their children will be bullied and discriminated against for being “exposed to radiation.” In June last year, Yoshikawa left TEPCO to “spread information about the work conditions from outside the company and deepen society’s understanding of them.”
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http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201312290006
