Nearly 90% of the workers at Fukushima Nuclear plant were low paid contract workers; and this reflects very well the wider picture too, more than 80% of all the more than 80 000 Japanese nuclear industry workers are temporary and contract workers. Of course same is the story of the French nuclear industry. We don’t know how many temporary contact workers are there in India’s nuclear Industry.

In Japan, temporary workers know almost nothing about things special about nuclear plants.

Right after the strong afterquake recently, they found out in Higashi-dori NPP, at the north end of the main island of Japan, that an emergency diesel engine system started up and stopped soon because a seal had been reversely attached in the last regular check and oil leaked. A trained worked would not have been so careless.

Source : Harsh Kapoor, Junko Abe