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The Tokyo Electric Power Company isn't exactly breaking the bank to dismantle the Fukushima Daiichi site—according to recent reports, it's paying such low wages to the rotating host of "liquidators," the workers in charge of dismantling the compromised reactor. For the thousand plus job offers in Fukushima, only a quarter are filled. The lowest-paid among them earn about $60 a day (6,000 yen) to expose themselves to the highest levels of radiation.
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Meet Japan's "Liquidators," the Depressed, Radiated Workers Who Make $60 a Day to Dismantle Fukushima | Motherboard
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The Tokyo Electric Power Company isn't exactly breaking the bank to dismantle the Fukushima Daiichi site—according to recent reports, it's paying such low wages to the rotating host of "liquidators," the workers in charge of dismantling the compromised reactor. For the thousand plus job offers in Fukushima, only a quarter are filled. The lowest-paid among them earn about $60 a day (6,000 yen) to expose themselves to the highest levels of radiation.
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