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This from the interview:
Do the contractors hired to work in there have the same amount of information as you?

No, they don't know anything. They take off their masks all the time, and they don't have meters or anything. All the workers are like that. When they first started going in they were freaking out over every little thing, but as time goes by, because you don't feel it or see it, you get careless.

You know what was crazy though? There is no one checking you as you leave either. We could have gone to a restaurant or something before cleaning and radiated all those other people. No one is really checking that. I was thinking about going to the doctor actually, just to check.

Thursday, August 25, 2011
Senate Republicans request IG probe of commission chairman

Associated issues: Reining in the Obama Administration’s Regulatory Agenda

Four Senate Republicans asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's inspector general today to investigate the agency's chairman for alleged abuses of emergency authorities and withholding information from fellow commission members.

Sens. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, John Barrasso of Wyoming, Jeff Sessions of Alabama and David Vitter of Louisiana say NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko is thwarting the five-member commission's ability to make decisions in a crisis spurred by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that crippled a Japan nuclear plant.

At issue is Jaczko's use of authority granted under Section 3 of NRC's 1980 reorganization plan, which allows for the transfer of certain commission powers to the chairman himself. Jaczko justified use of that power since the United States issued tsunami warnings in the wake of the Japan earthquake webcache.googleusercontent.com

Japan

Still current at: 04 September 2011
Updated: 31 August 2011

This advice has been reviewed and reissued with an amendment to the Natural Disasters – Typhoons section. The overall level of the advice has not changed; we advise against all but essential travel to those areas in north-east Japan most directly affected by the March earthquake and tsunami; we advise against all travel to within a 60km radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility with the exception of transit through the area via the Tohoku Expressway and the Tohoku Shinkansen Railway. www.fco.gov.uk

Found this, expires in a few weeks. www.travel.state.gov

Nuclear minister eyes standards for reactors' lifespan

TOKYO, Sept. 4, Kyodo

Goshi Hosono, a minister tasked with handling the country's nuclear crisis, said Sunday that the government needs to set definitions and standards for how long existing nuclear power reactors should be allowed to operate before they are decommissioned.

Hosono, who doubles as environment minister, told a group media interview that a new nuclear safety agency to be created to enforce greater supervision over the country's nuclear power plants will be closely involved in decommissioning.

''We can't extend (the reactors' lifespan) by looking sideways at electric power companies' business but must create a situation where we can make decisions scientifically,'' Hosono said. english.kyodonews.jp

@Panserbjorne9 did you see the one where goj suggest that the country shares fuku's pain by sharing the radiation contamination storage which has been increased from 8000bq max to 100000bq max?

@RadioGuy I think the 8000 level also was where they couldn't incinerate. So potentially they could incinerate up to that new amount?

@RadioGuy yummi yummi

@lillymunster unfortunately though Edano is bang on with the human rights we just don't have time to go down a rd that can take 6yrs or so to get anywhere :( I checked human rights for the children and it seens that contamintation isnt covered I even tried from angles such as endangerment etc and could only find one point on whhich they may have a case

"Das Recht auf körperliche Unversehrtheit gehört zu den Grundrechten eines Menschen im Geltungsbereich des Grundgesetzes für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Es wird zusammen mit dem Recht auf Leben und dem Recht auf Freiheit der Person in Art. 2 Abs. 2 des Grundgesetzes garantiert (hervorgehoben):

Jeder hat das Recht auf Leben und körperliche Unversehrtheit. Die Freiheit der Person ist unverletzlich. In diese Rechte darf nur auf Grund eines Gesetzes eingegriffen werden." de.wikipedia.org

"The right to physical integrity is one of the fundamental rights of a person within the scope of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is used together with the right to life and the right to freedom of person under Article 2 paragraph 2 of the Constitution (emphasis added) guarantees:

Everyone has the right to life and physical integrity. Personal liberty is inviolable. These rights may be interfered with only pursuant to a law."

as usual, you cannot find this in the english wikipedia.