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NEWS and REPORTS => World News => Topic started by: YahooNews on Oct 25, 2013, 01:31 PM

Title: Special Report: Help wanted in Fukushima: Low pay, high risks and gangsters
Post by: YahooNews on Oct 25, 2013, 01:31 PM
By Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito IWAKI, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Tetsuya Hayashi went to Fukushima to take a job at ground zero of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. He lasted less than two weeks. Hayashi, 41, says he was recruited for a job monitoring the radiation exposure of workers leaving the plant in the summer of 2012. Instead, when he turned up for work, he was handed off through a web of contractors and assigned, to his surprise, to one of Fukushima's hottest radiation zones. He was told he would have to wear an oxygen tank and a double-layer protective suit. ...



Source: Special Report: Help wanted in Fukushima: Low pay, high risks and gangsters (http://news.yahoo.com/special-report-help-wanted-fukushima-low-pay-high-050626106--sector.html)