I know someone who is being recruited to go over there to work on the damaged nuke plant. Japan is throwing a boatload of money at him and his wife and kids are invited to come with him. He’s not the only one they’re trying to hire claiming it’s perfectly safe. If it’s so safe, then why are they having to go outside Japan with mountains of $$$$ to intice workers to go there? I’m guessing those Japanese workers don’t want to be anywhere around that bulging wall in #4.
Because of legal individual exposure limits, including monthly, quarterly, and annual limits, they need lots of workers to cycle in and out of service. There is such an immense amount of work to do, that if you only have a limited number of workers, the amount of time the cleanup is going to take is only that much longer. Also, more workers will mean a lower average exposure to each worker. The work has to get done, so importing workers is perfectly legitimate here.
Actually a great opportunity for nuclear workers.