07 December 2013 (19:51 UTC-07 Tango 06 December 2013)/03 Safar 1435/16 Azar 1392/05 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711
“Yes, we did a shoddy job. The quality of what we did was low, but what else would you expect…”-unnamed illegally hired Fukushima Daiichi employee
A Reuters report says the numerous leaking water storage tanks around Fukushima Daiichi were built by illegal employees, most had no training.
According to the report, a third party contractor hired the nuke plant workers from the poorest parts of Japan. It is supposedly illegal in Japan for a third party to hire your employees. On top of that, the third (fourth?) party contractor is not even registered to do work in Japan.
Blame it on Japan’s corporate policy to sub contract all work. Here’s how it went: Tokyo Electric Power Company hired Taisei to handle the construction of the massive contaminated water storage tank farms. But Taisei sub contracted to Tokyo Engineering Corporation (TEC). TEC then sub contracted the job of hiring employees to a Token Kogyo.
Those employees were told to keep quite about how they got their jobs, and not to complain: “Even if we didn’t agree with how things were being done, we had to keep quiet and work fast.”-Uechi Yoshitatsu, former bus driver hired to work at Fukushima Daiichi who blew the whistle on the illegal hiring operation
I’ve written before about how nuclear plant workers in Japan are considered the untouchable class, most of the workers are the least educated in a country that leads the World in test taking skills. They’re called “throwaway workers”.
“I have seen many younger workers drop out of the clean-up after they had their wages skimmed or after facing dangers that were not explained to them. Without stronger labor protection, there’s no way the decommissioning project will succeed.”-Uechi Yoshitatsu, whistleblower
Uechi actually made an audio recording of his boss, who works for TEC, admitting they lie to government officials and the general public: “When it comes to our sub-contractors, we register them all as TEC. If you want to say that’s a forgery, then, yes, it’s a forgery.”-unnamed TEC supervisor at Fukushima Daiichi
Now realize that if those in charge of the never ending nuke disaster at Fukushima Daiichi knowingly lie, then we should expect the next revelation to be much worse than reported. TEPCo is reporting a new radiation leak, from a vent pipe, that is emitting 25 sieverts per hour! That will kill you after 20 minutes of exposure!
The pipe was originally installed after the nuclear explosions, to help vent radioactive gasses from damaged reactor buildings.
Remember when the Japanese government promised evacuees they’d be returned home within six months? I do, I wrote about it (check my Fukushima archives). Well, the majority of nuclear evacuees are now refusing to go home!
This involves the towns of Okuma and Futaba. A survey showed about 65% of the evacuees now realize they can not return to their homes. They blame the comedy of corporate errors led by TEPCo as the main reason.
Most evacuees are living in temporary mobile homes.
In the city of Minami-Soma, the Shoei High School finally closed down due to lack of students. The 110 students have never returned to the school that is only 22km (13.6 miles) from Fukushima Daiichi.
Remember when I reported that British Bilderberger, Barbara Judge took over the ‘safety programs’ for TEPCo? Now there are reports Japan is about to create a whole new nuclear agency based on United Kingdom’s National Decommissioning Authority.
Japanese officials told Reuters that it’s looking more and more like the national government will have to take direct charge in “decommissioning” Fukushima Daiichi, because TEPCo continues to prove its incompetence.
Japan currently has no government agency for oversight of nuke plant decommissioning! Sometimes I just want to yell at the Japanese “Baka!”