30 Fukushima workers exposed to maximum radiation levels

[Generic Other]

30 repair workers at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been exposed to radiation above maximum permissible levels.

This came in a statement earlier today by an official of the Tokyo Electric Power Company <...>

In Japan, 100 millisieverts is seen as the annual maximum permissible dose for those engaged in emergency repair work. But the current emergency situation has prompted raising the limit to 250 millisieverts. <...>

http://enenews.com/30-fukushima-workers-exposed-maximum-radiation-levels


Who wants a job? Step right up all you folks who think we can get the same amount of radiation driving a car or riding a plane or eating off orange fiesta ware! There's some openings at TEPCO. $6000 dollars per day last I heard. And I think these are short days.

[Generic Other]

1. Officials: Radiation exposure in No. 1 building would be so high workers could not re-enter area for

Another problem area is the building housing the No. 1 reactor. TEPCO officials used a U.S.-made robot on April 16 to measure radiation levels and detected radiation of 270 millisieverts per hour in the No. 1 reactor building.

That level of radiation means a worker could spend less than an hour in the area before exceeding the allowable dosage.

The exposure would be so high workers could not re-enter the area for several years, officials said. If radiation levels remain at high levels, TEPCO’s experienced workforce would all quickly reach maximum radiation exposure levels, severely slowing the effort to stabilize the plant.

To achieve TEPCO’s road map objective of a cold shutdown of the reactors after six to nine months, officials are seeking to restore the cooling system… Workers will have to work in those buildings to inspect and repair the equipment and piping.

http://enenews.com/officials-radiation-exposure-in-no-1-building-would-be-so-high-workers-could-not-re-enter-area-for-several-years

[dana_b]

2. $6000/day

so that their families can bury them and maybe get themselves out of the country. How horrific

[Generic Other]

3. that's why I said short days...

as in days are numbered!

[PCIntern]

4. I'm sorry, did they eat too many bananas as some (formerly) here

would have us believe? Or did they take too many airline flights?

Hard to believe that this happened... :sarcasm:

[Sirveri]

5. Maybe I will go... been fooling around with the idea of the feasibility of it...

Don't speak Japanese though...

on edit: Looks like they're not actually interested.
<About Recruiting(as of April 7th, 2011)>
We are very sorry, but we are not recruiting personnel for Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/other/contact/contop-e.html

[Generic Other]

7. Is this brave or foolhardy?

I seriously can't say. Seems like TEPCO needs to find anyone willing to go in.

[Sirveri]

8. I've got depression issues and like the idea of self sacrifice for the greater good.

But as I just dug up, they aren't actually hiring.

[Generic Other]

9. Well they are going to have to eventually at the rate they are going through workers

A lot of people were needed to contain Chernobyl.

I think it sounds like a suicide mission.

[Sirveri]

10. It's 1/4 the dose needed for acute radiation poisoning.

Not such a big deal in my mind, but I've actually had training on this sort of thing, seems kind of a waste to just sit around with it.

[formercia]

6. Cheap Radiation Therapy.

If one had stage IV Cancer. If I had a couple of months left, I would rather put money in my family's pockets than some overpriced medical facility.