Fwd: Japanese nuclear 'slaves' at risk

["Michael C. Baker" <mcbaker@lanl.gov>]

Here is a link to a recent BBC news article that may be of interest.

Mike

>Japanese nuclear 'slaves' at risk
>Untrained workers are being exposed to high levels of radiation
>By Juliet Hindell in Tokyo
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_493000/493133.stm
>
>At least 700 people working in the nuclear industy in Japan may have died from
>exposure to dangerous levels of radioactivity. The incident at the Tokaimura
>plant one month ago has revealed dangerous practices likened by some 
>critics to
>"modern slavery" within the industry, putting the lives of untrained temporary
>workers at risk.  Employment brokers are recruiting temporary workers from
>Japan's growing number of homeless people to do jobs like cleaning nuclear
>reactors.



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