Japan to scrap workers' annual radiation dose limit at normal times TOKYO, April 28,
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/88170.html
Japan to scrap workers' annual radiation dose limit at normal times
TOKYO, April 28, Kyodo
The health ministry plans to scrap the annual radiation dose limit for nuclear power plant workers at normal times for the meantime to secure enough workers for maintenance and checkups of nuclear power plants other than the crisis-hit Fukushima power station, sources close to the matter said Wednesday.
Key word other than Fukushima???
Honestly, they need to do
Honestly, they need to do this. They need to get people in there, on the ground, dealing with this situation. We can't have robots do everything. Look at how the Russians handled it - an army was sent in!
It's a suicide mission, plain and simple. But if we don't have people lined up and willing to put their lives on the line when the world is threatened in this way, then we SHOULDN'T BUILD NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. I for one would love to see every last plant shut down, but if we're going to allow it, then corporations that build them and governments that support them need to have a plan in place for lives to be sacrificed to deal with these sorts of disasters. And if they don't have the people willing to do that, then they should never be green-lighted.
it's not suicide, it's murder.
But if we're going to allow it, then the people who make the decisions in the corporations that build them and governments that support them should be the ones whose lives should be sacrificed to deal with these sorts of disasters. Take them all one by one and send them into the reactor buildings and make them clean up the situation and take personal responsibility and liability for their inhuman decisions and murderous actions. If we know it's a suicide mission and we send someone else to do it, that is not suicide, that is murder. And if we are going to allow it, then we are all murderers. The nuclear power industry needs to be shut down completely everywhere in the world right now, and it needs to be forced to deal with the all of the existing problems it has already created including over 300 thousand metric tons of deadly nuclear waste material it has produced before it can even think about building another single reactor. If anyone does not wish to be a murderer, then he or she must act with everything they have to shut them all down now. And if one is unwilling to do so, then that person is an accomplice to this ongoing crime against humanity. A crime that will have its repercussions and its price to pay for everyone.
Other plants
The point of my posting this article was it states other plants than Fukushima indicating they have other problems at other plants...I totally agree with your posts though. this situation seems to me to require the most urgency.but when u face facts no human can withstand 1200 mlsv reding taken in reactor one. what was the reading next to chernoble o yea they had to build a concrete wall so the cranes could work behind it.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article707924.ece.
Article on the heroes of chernoble.... remember tepco initially wanted to abandon the plant heroes unlikely.
Kyodo said Kan had ordered TEPCO not to pull employees out of the plant. "The TV reported an explosion. But nothing was said to the premier's office for about an hour," a Kyodo reporter quoted Kan telling power company executives. "What the hell is going on?"
http://in.news.yahoo.com/japan-braces-potential-radiation-catastrophe-20...
My I am slow
Omg look at the map on this site no wonder they have to raise the limits for workers at other plants there are two in close proximity to Fukushima daiichi...so silly to build 6 reactors in line...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&add...
I agree, but isn't that what
I agree, but isn't that what the military is - people who put their lives on the line to save their country? That's how Russia viewed it. Like I said, I am totally opposed to these plants and will continue to advocate that they be shut down, but countries that build them have to have a plan to attack these crises head on, including using the military, the national guard, etc. I think it is the height of absurdity for something of this magnitude to be in the hands of a private corporation (that has no loyalty to the public good) and a bunch of consultants and the corporation saying they can't let anyone get close to it because there is too much radiation. Well, duh! But that radiation is going to end up killing thousands of people - including CHILDREN - and it's unacceptable for the powers that be to simply dawdle and "hope for the best". There's a lot more at stake here than just TEPCOs falling share price. The Japanese government should have taken over this situation from Day 1. Just like the US government should have taken over the crisis in the gulf instead of just leaving it to BP. Disgusting..
I agree completely. I am
I agree completely. I am shocked and disgusted at the handling of this and the BP spill. Priorities need to be drastically rearranged.