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Fukushima radiation cleanup: Send in the homeless?
Christian Science Monitor ^ | 12/31/13

Posted on 12/31/2013 8:55:19 PM PST by Nachum

Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men.

He isn't a social worker. He's a recruiter. The men in Sendai Station are potential laborers that Sasa can dispatch to contractors in Japan's nuclear disaster zone for a bounty of $100 a head.

"This is how labor recruiters like me come in every day," Sasa says, as he strides past men sleeping on cardboard and clutching at their coats against the early winter cold.

It's also how Japan finds people willing to accept minimum wage for one of the most undesirable jobs in the industrialized world: working on the $35 billion, taxpayer-funded effort to clean up radioactive fallout across an area of northern Japan larger than Hong Kong.

Almost three years ago, a massive earthquake and tsunami leveled villages across Japan's northeast coast and set off multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Today, the most ambitious radiation clean-up ever attempted is running behind schedule. The effort is being dogged by both a lack of oversight and a shortage of workers

(Excerpt) Read more at enenews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: forbes; fukushima; fukushimacleanup; homeless; radiation; workers

1 posted on 12/31/2013 8:55:19 PM PST by Nachum
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To: All

The Correct link

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Latest-News-Wires/2013/1231/Fukushima-radiation-cleanup-Send-in-the-homeless


2 posted on 12/31/2013 8:55:44 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

No, homeless may still be of future use to society.
Send in a useless group of so called humanity: politicians and NSA department heads.


3 posted on 12/31/2013 8:56:50 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Nachum

Send in the homeless?
No...
Send in the homos!


4 posted on 12/31/2013 9:11:27 PM PST by Edward Teach
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To: Nachum

There is a guy who has been standing on a busy corny near my home for three years almost every day.

He holds a stupid little dog (low info types give more when they see a “homeless” dog.)

Sometimes he limps, but I’ve seen him walk just fine to the bus stop.

I say: lets give all “homeless” guys like this a ticket to Japan for some humanitarian work.


5 posted on 12/31/2013 9:15:07 PM PST by garjog (Obama: making the world safe for Sharia.)
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To: Darksheare

KUDOs


6 posted on 12/31/2013 9:46:32 PM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Mortrey

“Congrats on your new surveillance tail van!”
Lol.


7 posted on 12/31/2013 10:28:40 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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