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Monday, July 23, 2012

Fukushima Watch: Doctoring Dosimeters — How Far Did It Go?


Fukushima Watch: Doctoring Dosimeters — How Far Did It Go?

Wall Street Journal (blog) -
By Mitsuru Obe and Phred Dvorak Over the weekend, a subcontractor that worked at the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant confessed to asking some of its employees to put lead covers on their dosimeters in order to keep their radiation exposure ...

Official of TEPCO subcontractor: Dosimeter ruse was one-time act

Asahi Shimbun -
A senior official of a construction company has admitted that he and four workers used lead plates to shield their dosimeters to lower radiation readings inside the embattled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in December. The 54-year-old official ...

Radiation dosages 'falsified'

AsiaOne - ‎13 hours ago‎
Build-up was a subcontractor of Tokyo Energy & Systems Inc., a Tokyo-based group firm of TEPCO entrusted with restoring the plant. The health ministry is investigating allegations that a construction company ordered its workers at the crippled ...

Japan Begins Radiation Inquiry

New York Times -
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese authorities are investigating subcontractors on suspicion that they forced workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant to underreport the amount of radiation they were exposed to so they could stay on the job longer.

Japanese authorities investigate bogus readings at Fukushima plant

The Guardian -
Japanese authorities are investigating subcontractors on suspicion they forced workers at the tsunami-hit nuclear plant to underreport their instrument readings so they could stay on the job longer. Labour officials said on Sunday that an investigation ...

Japan investigates alleged cover-up at nuclear plant

Christian Science Monitor -
Workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant may have been forced to underreport the amount of radiation they were exposed to. By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press / July 22, 2012 Workers in protective suits and masks wait to enter the emergency ...
 
 
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