Help Wanted: Low Pay, High Risk

<b>October 25, 2013</b><br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/25/us-fukushima-workers-specialreport-idUSBRE99O04320131025">Special Report: Help wanted in Fukushima: Low pay, high risks and gangsters</a><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>Hayashi, 41, says he was recruited for a job monitoring the radiation exposure of workers leaving the plant in the summer of 2012. Instead, when he turned up for work, he was handed off through a web of contractors and assigned, to his surprise, to one of Fukushima's hottest radiation zones.<br /><br />He was told he would have to wear an oxygen tank and a double-layer protective suit. Even then, his handlers told him, the radiation would be so high it could burn through his annual exposure limit in just under an hour.</i></div>

Help Wanted: Low Pay, High Risk

October 25, 2013 Special Report: Help wanted in Fukushima: Low pay, high risks and gangsters Hayashi, 41, says he was recruited for a job mo...

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