Fukushima workers
July 19, 2011
When I was about 20, I worked at a major automobile plant as a seasonal worker. I performed the same duties as the company's regular employees, but I was treated quite...
June 18, 2011
A man working to decontaminate the vehicles being used at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is singing the "radiation blues" at live music houses and on the...
June 18, 2011
Leading life insurers are expected to jointly loan hundreds of billions of yen to embattled Tokyo Electric Power Co. to help it tackle the nuclear accident and buy fuel for its ...
June 14, 2011
When former engineer Yasuteru Yamada put out the call for elderly volunteers to help tame the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, he got responses from about 300 ...
June 14, 2011
Six more employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. working at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were exposed to more radiation than allowed even under the relaxed limits put...
June 13, 2011
The government is being pressured to just throw out its safety standards for nuclear power plants and go back to the drawing board, in light of the March 11 Great East Japan...
April 30, 2011
Weeks after fleeing from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Minoru Yoshida received a call from his employer offering to extend his contract.
April 15, 2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said a failure of communication may have been partly responsible for the exposure of workers to dangerous levels of radiation near the quake-damaged...
April 13, 2011
Strong aftershocks have added another layer of problems for workers trying to stabilize the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and forced a shift in the plant...
April 04, 2011
The problems continue to pile up at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, creating an unprecedented hazardous environment for the under-equipped front-line workers trying to bring ...
March 29, 2011
The prolonged crisis at the quake-stricken nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture is increasingly wearing down front-line workers, as the exhausting and dangerous work...
March 26, 2011
Amid the heroic efforts of workers fighting the crisis at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, reports are emerging about the shoddy safety management of plant...
March 24, 2011
Work resumed Thursday to cool reactor cores and storage pools containing spent fuel rods at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, but two workers were hospitalized because...
March 21, 2011
The painstaking task of restoring external power to the crippled reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant continued on Monday, despite high radiation levels that are ...
March 19, 2011
In a second-floor room of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s main office in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, about 100 people watch the events unfold on a large screen.
March 19, 2011
Work continued at a frenetic pace Saturday to restore electric power to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and prevent the nuclear crisis from deteriorating.
March 18, 2011
Relatives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers assigned to avert a nuclear catastrophe at the quake-ravaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have called on the Japanese...
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