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by Edano 10/6/2011 8:01:24 PM

How many people have died on-site since it's been in operation? What's typical for a nuclear plant? Average for all industrial sites? Isn't 3 deaths an awful lot for six months for a crew of what, 1,000?
by artnuke 10/6/2011 8:13:01 PM

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Bugs don't like nukes - here's the rest of the chernobyl survey. Points to another bird survey that has same conclusions, on a log chart populaton goes up with radiation, from background to the sort of levels we've seen around Fukushima. Not proof of harm for humans, but certainly grounds for bug activists to be mad as hell though.
by artnuke 10/6/2011 8:14:53 PM

@artnuke they have said far more than 1000 workers in and out of the plant. Deaths in May, August, October. Workers dropping dead even at a nuclear plant is odd.
by lillymunster 10/6/2011 8:17:05 PM

Can't remember if this was posted or not www.asahi.com
by lillymunster 10/6/2011 8:18:21 PM

@lillymunster i think there were more deaths.
by Edano 10/6/2011 8:18:27 PM

@Edano not reported or other deaths at the plant?
by lillymunster 10/6/2011 8:18:52 PM

@lillymunster i remember more reported.
by Edano 10/6/2011 8:19:52 PM

@Edano two died in the tsunami in unit 4 turbine building. There was a report of SDF solidiers dying during unit 3's blast that was later corrected to be injuries. A worker at Daini died during the quake on one of the vent towers. Those are the ones I remember. That doesn't mean there are not more. :-)
by lillymunster 10/6/2011 8:22:18 PM

Japanese equipment maker creates a home radiation food tester news.cnet.com
by lillymunster 10/6/2011 8:23:16 PM

@lillymunster I suspect workers who are too sick to work and are contracter staff do not get included in the data
by elainekirk 10/6/2011 8:39:46 PM

Latest list of casualties from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

By IBTimes Staff Reporter | March 17, 2011 8:56 AM EDT

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has listed out the human injuries and contamination at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, after an official statement from Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary.

The list provides a snapshot of the latest information made available to the IAEA by Japanese authorities. Given the fluid situation at the plant, this information is subject to change.

INJURIES

* 2 Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) employees have minor injuries

* 2 subcontractor employees are injured, one person suffered broken legs and one person whose condition is unknown was transported to the hospital

* 2 people are missing

* 2 people were 'suddenly taken ill'

* 2 TEPCO employees were transported to hospital during the time of donning respiratory protection in the control centre

* 4 people (2 TEPCO employees, 2 subcontractor employees) sustained minor injuries due to the explosion at unit 1 on 11 March and were transported to the hospital

* 11 people (4 TEPCO employees, 3 subcontractor employees and 4 Japanese civil defense workers) were injured due to the explosion at unit 3 on 14 March

RADIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION

* 17 people (9 TEPCO employees, 8 subcontractor employees) suffered from deposition of radioactive material to their faces, but were not taken to the hospital because of low levels of exposure

* One worker suffered from significant exposure during 'vent work,' and was transported to an offsite center

* 2 policemen who were exposed to radiation were decontaminated

* Firemen who were exposed to radiation are under investigation

The IAEA continues to seek information from Japanese authorities about all aspects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, added a press release from the Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary, dated 16 March 2011. www.ibtimes.com
by Edano 10/6/2011 8:42:30 PM

I wonder about the workers who went in to do the venting attempts. That list says one had exposure doing vent work. What has happened to these people?
by lillymunster 10/6/2011 8:46:00 PM

@lillymunster yes, that's a problem. they descend in anonymity.
by Edano 10/6/2011 8:47:35 PM

30 Mar 2011 - 11. Summary of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants .... illness has not been reported. ... But, due to lack of availability of WBC (only 4 units), not all workers ... just trying to open this my internet is a bit slow www.aec.go.jp
by elainekirk 10/6/2011 8:52:04 PM

@Edano , I remember seeing a table published by tepco listing doses and number of workers from the past six months. The half dozen or so who received doses greater than 100 milliSv must be those involved in the venting. We should keep a tally of the workers who die of unknown causes.
by Peter 10/6/2011 8:54:44 PM

Sun May 15, 2011 8:11 am

A third worker died at Fukushima, Saturday and it was reported today on Japanese TV. There is no hospital functioning as the area has been abandoned and no ambulance could enter the area so he died. He was carrying a chainsaw at the time. Things could have been worse. The cause of death was unknown, he just passed out and died. But they are saying it wasn't radiation.
www.rys2sense.com

Third worker dies at Fukushima nuclear plant
Saturday, 14 May 2011
www.independent.co.uk

A worker at Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant died today, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said, bringing the death toll at the complex to three since a massive earthquake and tsunami in March.

The cause of the death was unknown. The man, in his 60s, was employed by one of Tokyo Electric's contractors and started working at the plant yesterday. He was exposed to 0.17 millisieverts of radiation today, Tokyo Electric said.

The Japanese government's maximum level of exposure for male workers at the plant is 250 millisieverts for the duration of the effort to bring it under control.
by Edano 10/6/2011 8:55:12 PM

@Peter yes we certainly should keep an eye on that.
by Edano 10/6/2011 8:57:10 PM

imagine, they work with dosimeters that max out on some microsievert, there are hotspots and they just fall dead and tepco says oh it's only heatstroke.
by Edano 10/6/2011 9:01:43 PM

What official records could give the missing information? Death certificates? Labor ministry records? Public health records? Sometimes there are ways of gleaning information without looking at medical records.
by lillymunster 10/6/2011 9:04:27 PM

From the Sep update to IAEA, p II-414: "Among workers in March, six people were confirmed as having received exposure exceeding the dose limit of 250mSv for emergency work. All six were TEPCO employees who were engineers in electricity and instrumentation among operators and workers engaged in maintenance of the main control room, and who were engaged in monitoring the instruments in the main control room for several days immediately after the Unit 1 and Unit 3 explosions. The explosions caused contaminated air to flow into the main control room through broken doors, and it is presumed that there occurred the intake of radioactive materials into the body due to the lack of protective equipment (masks), difficulties in the additional deployment of equipment and other reasons. The situation of the workers whose exposure exceeded the dose limit for emergency work, including those engaged in the work indicated above, is shown. (cf. Attachment “Six people confirmed to have exceeded 250 mSv”)."
by Peter 10/6/2011 9:05:34 PM

remember this: two workers were hospitalised because of radiation exposure after their clothes were soaked while standing in contaminated water. The contamination occurred because they were not wearing rubber boots, but they were released from hospital within four days.
by Edano 10/6/2011 9:06:45 PM

@Edano the two standing in water guys. There was a third with a radiation burn on his arm around the same time.

The two workers were sent to whatever hospital deals with radiation exposure and eventually released.
by lillymunster 10/6/2011 9:07:29 PM

@lillymunster @Peter right.
by Edano 10/6/2011 9:08:04 PM

I quote some more from the same page: "Among the workers engaged in emergency work at Fukushima Dai-ichi NPS, approximately 9,900 have completed assessments of both external and internal exposure doses (as of August 10). The dose distributions of new entrants in March,
April and May, respectively, are shown. (cf. Tables II-5-1, 2 and 3) A comparison of average values of the total amount of external and internal exposure doses for each month indicates a declining tendency, with 22.4 mSv in March, 3.9 mSv in April, and 3.1 mSv in May. The maximum dose per month from March to May was 670.4 mSv (in March). (cf. Table II-5-3 values) Workers exposed to high doses exceeding 100 mSv were concentrated in March in the early period of the earthquake disaster, totaling 103 people (84 TEPCO employees; 19 workers from cooperative firms). For the ***ulative dose, the average value of the sum of external exposure from March to July and internal exposure from March to May was 10.4 mSv, and the maximum dose was 672.27 mSv. (See Table II-5-4 values)."
by Peter 10/6/2011 9:08:24 PM

It is regrettable that 3 violations of the law occurred in TEPCO’s
radiation management for workers engaged in radiation work, such as 1)
the radiation concentration of the air in the Seismic Isolated Building at
Fukushima Dai-ichi NPS was high enough to warrant a mask, but masks
were not worn, 2) five female employees were working in areas that

required radiation management, despite not being registered as radiation
workers, and 2 of them had been exposed to radiation exceeding the public
dose limit. As a result, we have strictly warned TEPCO.
It says 3 violations and lists 2 ???? docs.google.com may25th
by elainekirk edited by lillymunster 10/6/2011 9:09:01 PM

@elainekirk yes, i remember the female workers.
@Peter that is a lot more than i memorize.
by Edano 10/6/2011 9:10:41 PM

and they didn't have enough dosimeters in the first weeks.
by Edano 10/6/2011 9:11:38 PM

@Peter, do you have a link for the IAEA doc?
by lillymunster 10/6/2011 9:15:37 PM

Radiation Exposure to the Workers on site
• As of May 23, total of 7,800 technicians and engineers
worked on site (collectively). No radiation-induced
illness has not been reported.
• According to the gov’t report, average exposure level
is 7.7 mSv.
• It is reported that 115 workers were exposed to
higher than 100 mSv. 9 workers received more than
250 mSv (as of June 21, 2011.) www.aec.go.jp
by elainekirk 10/6/2011 9:18:42 PM

@lillymunster , noo. Elaine posted this in a series she discovered a few weeks ago. I downloaded it.
by Peter 10/6/2011 9:19:43 PM

@Peter no worries, I will dig around, I must have them listed somewhere.
by lillymunster 10/6/2011 9:22:26 PM

@All I started a worker death and injury page and grabbed the news stories posted and other related documents. houseoffoust.com

We can keep adding to it as we find info
by lillymunster 10/6/2011 9:23:17 PM

this one: www.iaea.org ?
by Edano 10/6/2011 9:23:58 PM

no, but somewhere here www.iaea.org
by Edano 10/6/2011 9:26:19 PM

Here is Tab. II-5-4 from that report. i1214.photobucket.com
by Peter via I1214.photobucket 10/6/2011 9:36:46 PM

lilly, Elaine must have posted them on Sep 16. This file has got 23.3 mb.
by Peter 10/6/2011 9:41:38 PM

@Peter what's the pdf name or the title ?
by Edano 10/6/2011 9:42:50 PM

lilly, in toto this piece is composed of nine pdf-files.
by Peter 10/6/2011 9:42:54 PM

is this the file you got @Peter www.meti.go.jp
by elainekirk 10/6/2011 9:43:21 PM

@Majj great to see you majj
by elainekirk 10/6/2011 9:43:52 PM

Hot spots and blind spots
The mounting human costs of Japan’s nuclear disasterCREST the hill into the village of Iitate, and the reading on a radiation dosimeter surges eightfold—even with the car windows shut. “Don’t worry, I’ve been coming here for months and I’m still alive,” chuckles Chohei Sato, chief of the village council, as he rolls down the window and inhales cheerfully. He pulls off the road, gets out of the car and buries the dosimeter in the grass. The reading doubles again. www.economist.com
by Majj 10/6/2011 9:52:32 PM

@elainekirk , not quite. It's got the same intro, but mine says Chapter I at the top right and ends differently. I was quoting from Chapter II.
by Peter 10/6/2011 9:54:17 PM