Fukushima workers: “We are Kamikaze” Public needs to realize that very real danger remains at plant

[stockholmer]

Run time: 02:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFsQmQEnH4c   Posted on YouTube: June 19, 2011 By YouTube Member: AlJazeeraEnglish Views on YouTube: 2488   Posted on DU: June 20, 2011 By DU Member: stockholmer Views on DU: 1269

 
The nuclear plant at Japan's Fukushima may be leaking radiation, but people are still going there daily to look for employment where about 2,200 of the 2,500 working there are subcontractors.

In the last three months, at least eight workers have been exposed to high levels of radiation and removed from duty but this has not deterred others.

It's a vocation with little job security, few benefits and no insurance for injuries or radiation poisoning but many are still lining up.

Al Jazeera's Marga Ortigas reports

[Moostache]

1. I have a loooooooooooooooong list of Americans I would like to "volunteer" for a tour...

Lloyd Blankfein (Goldman Sachs)
Hank Paulson (who cares unless its terminal...)
Tim Geithner (Treasury)
John Mack (Morgan Stanley)
John Thain (Merill Lynch)
Kenneth Lewis (Bank of America)
John Stumpf (Wells Fargo)
Vikram Pandit (Citigroup)
James Dimon (JP Morgan)

I think that a number of unprotected minutes at Fukushima equal to their "bonuses" for the last 10-years would be a good start....let's see what the "masters of the universe" can do when they are irradiated and dying of radiation sickness. It would be about the most useful thing they could do as atonement for their actions over the last 5 years.

[Citizen Worker]

4. I would add the following to your rogue's gallery: Angelo Mozillo, Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers,

Phil Gramm, Jim Leach, Blihley, and Bill Clinton for signing the repeal of Glass-Steagall.

[peace4ever]

6. and all the online apologist, too

they are simply gross.

[chervilant]

2. Wow...

I bet GE would prefer not to be mentioned in the same sentence with Fukushima...

[AsahinaKimi]

3. heros...all of them.

eom.

[defendandprotect]

5. kr

[DeSwiss]

7. K&R

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