7/22/2012 Fukushima contractor forced workers to fake radiation readings — RT

Source: Russia Today
Date:  22 July, 2012, 01:32

The Unit 4 nuclear reactor building at TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant (AFP Photo / Tepco)

A company charged with decontaminating the devastated Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant encouraged its workers to falsely lower their radiation dosimeter readings by covering the devices with lead, according to a leaked tape of an internal meeting.

Nuclear plant workers are not allowed to be exposed to more than 50 millisieverts of radiation a year. But managers at Build-up, a company that provided insulation on the pipes that would pump irradiated water out of the plant, believed that doses experienced inside the plant, which suffered a meltdown, meant workers would quickly reach their limit.
...
Read full article here.

Editor's Note:  See also Nuclear Worker: “There’s been some people dying, young guys, of some weird cancers” (VIDEO) courtesy of ENENEWS.