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Doctors: Japan nuclear plant workers face stigma
More than a year after the disaster at Fukushima, workers are still trying to get the mess under control (never mind cleaned up). They're risking their health, and probably their lives. Some older workers came out of retirement specifically to spare younger people. The place is so dangerous that there are places too radioactive even for robots to function.
But the people who still live in the area have come to hate TEPCO and everything associated with it. So, while the workers sacrifice everything for the good of their neighbors and for generations to come, working to clean up the horrific mess their bosses helped to create, the community has turned on them. They now come home from the hazards of working at the plant to find they and their families face discrimination and bullying.
(Meantime, here in the US, nuclear industry lobbyists are working to keep from having to upgrade their plants, even though many of them have the same design flaws that led to Fukushima's unbelievably disastrous flood damage. And, of course, they're all situated on the water.)
Oh, and just in case that doesn't suck enough...
Those droughts and heat waves killing people and threatening our food supply? Yeah, that's climate change. Another mess we've created for ourselves.
More than a year after the disaster at Fukushima, workers are still trying to get the mess under control (never mind cleaned up). They're risking their health, and probably their lives. Some older workers came out of retirement specifically to spare younger people. The place is so dangerous that there are places too radioactive even for robots to function.
But the people who still live in the area have come to hate TEPCO and everything associated with it. So, while the workers sacrifice everything for the good of their neighbors and for generations to come, working to clean up the horrific mess their bosses helped to create, the community has turned on them. They now come home from the hazards of working at the plant to find they and their families face discrimination and bullying.
(Meantime, here in the US, nuclear industry lobbyists are working to keep from having to upgrade their plants, even though many of them have the same design flaws that led to Fukushima's unbelievably disastrous flood damage. And, of course, they're all situated on the water.)
Oh, and just in case that doesn't suck enough...
Those droughts and heat waves killing people and threatening our food supply? Yeah, that's climate change. Another mess we've created for ourselves.