'Fukushima Fifty' cut off from family - to prevent news of difficult conditions leaking out

[jpak]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8393018/Japan-nuclear-crisis-Fukushima-Fifty-cut-off-from-family.html

A family friend of one of the workers - the team battling to control the crisis at the power plant - said that email and phone access had been cut and one man had been unable to speak to his wife for days.

The move comes after one of the Fifty texted his wife in Japan saying that drinking water at the plant was running low, adding: "I feel like I'm coming down with something."

Fukushima workers interviewed by The Sunday Telegraph at a special evacuation centre in the city of Koriyama said they had lost confidence in the management of the plant.

"We were told that safety was a top priority," said one staff member, who asked to remain anonymous. "We went through simulations of what to do in an emergency, but we never thought it would be as bad as this. I don't want to go back there."

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This was an older article I should have posted when it showed up on The Google...

[joeybee12]

1. It's very sad...but the ending for these 50 is pretty obvious...

Shame on how they're being treated.

[RKP5637]

2. Too many ups and downs will all of this ... this certainly sounds valid to me ... the cover up

BS is incredible IMO.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Worse yet, you just gotta KNOW coverup mentality is not limited to TEPCO.

Here in the USA we have already been thru enough government sponsored lies to know what to expect when one of our
reactors has a major problem.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. What's more difficult than "dead?"

:shrug:


:freak:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. True heroes.

[phantom power]

5. I heard it was more like the "fukushima 200"

[FBaggins]

7. It was (in shifts of 50)... it's now thought to be over 1,000. n/t

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[jpak]

9. Why bother with fringe sites when you can read pro-nuke kookoobananas crapahola in this thread

:rofl:

[FBaggins]

10. That's a good point... There are a number here posting that they're all dead.

Oh wait... You said "pro"?


So was this the thread you claimed you already posted? Not much now that you look at it, is it?

[Fledermaus]

11. Crap Monger

Have your kids grow up on this diet.

[FBaggins]

13. You know what they say.

"The last refuge of ignorance" indeed.

[jimlup]

12. Am I wrong to believe the media who are saying they have not received a "significant" dose?

I'm hearing that they've received like ~100mSv at the most and only a few of them. Like the three who were hospitalized yesterday. Is this inaccurate slanting of the truth? I certainly could believe it but I don't know what sources to trust. Thanks.

[FBaggins]

14. There is disagreement re: what constitutes a significant dose.

100mSv is usually considered to be right around the point where most scientists expect to be able to correlate the dose with an increased risk of cancer later in life.

The problem is that the group is too small to be statistically useful. You might normally expect seven of the 17 to get cancer at some point in their lives. But if it were only five that wouldn't mean that the experience had been good for them and if it were nine it wouldn't statistically demonstrate that a couple of the cancers were from this exposure.

The other question is whether or not you can believe the reporting of what the dose has been.