German TV-channel ZDF talks with workers at Fukushima Dai-ichi (german, english subs) (video xpost)

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German TV-channel ZDF talks with workers at Fukushima Dai-ichi (german, english subs)

Run time: 08:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1T4Ac9nHeY

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for english subtitels, press the cc-button bottom right
This report was broadcasted on Oct. 4, 2011 at the german TV-channel ZDF, one of the public channels in Germany.

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Another report can be seen at http://www.france24.com/en/20111007-reporters-japan-cle...

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The complete broadcast can be seen at http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/beitrag/video/1457128/Fr...

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[JDPriestly]

1. Pretty shocking. I listened to the German (and understand it).

It is too long for me to translate, and I understand that you can get subtitles.

For those who do not have the patience to listen to so much German, here are a few highlights"

The properties around the reactor are, of course, abandoned.

The people working at the reactor site sign contracts with confidentiality clauses that prohibit them from talking at all to the media or about what they hear, read or see at the site. Nevertheless, a worker or workers from the site spoke with the reporter at the reporter's office.

Seems the site still has many very dangerous, "hot spots," but the workers at the site have not been told where they are and don't know which areas are unsafe and which are safe.

The report retells the story of the "doctor" who advised the Japanese that if they would just laugh, the radiation would not affect them.

The saddest part of the report, in my view, was the admission by the spokesman for the company that runs the Fukushima reactors that he does not know what provisions are in the contracts the workers at Fukushima signed because the workers are employed by an independent company.

I am unfamiliar with Japanese law, but that makes me wonder whether Fukushima has tried and perhaps successfully placed corporate veils between itself and the liability lawsuits that the workers could bring in the future. I repeat that I don't know Japanese liability law at all. Perhaps it is very different from ours. But I find that fact quite frightening. It makes me suspect that the Fukushima reactor management is anticipating disastrous health effects for the workers who are not, if this report is true, being accurately informed about the risks they are accepting by working there.

If so, that is the most immoral thing that I have learned about the handling of the Fukushima disaster thus far. The whole affair is sickening.

If you could understand the

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2. Thank you so much for your comments. nt

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3. Sounds like this Mr Yamashita...

must be one of those smiling health physicists. :sarcasm: