Wednesday, September 14, 2011

No Free Lunch For Dying Fukushima Workers

TEPCO stopped providing bento lunches at Fukushima I. From now on, the company will sell bento at Fukushima I. Workers are to pre-order in order to get bento. Asking how much TEPCO will charge for bento. Personally they should continue to provide lunch for free.

これまでふくいちは、放射線の関係でお弁当を持ち込むことができなかったので、現場でレトルトを温めていた。だからレトルトを支給していたと、東電・松本さん。でも状況が安定してきてレトルトでなくても大丈夫になったので、お弁当にすると。

TEPCO's Matsumoto explains the company has been providing [for free] boil-in-the-bag food because high radiation at the plant prevented [workers] from bringing in bento. But the situation has stabilized at the plant, and the boil-in-the-bag food is no longer necessary, so the company is switching to bento, Matsumoto says.

松本さん曰く、今は平常時になってきているので、食事も各自がお弁当を持ってきたり、買ってきたりすることができる。だから支給の必要はないという説明。う〜ん、なんかヘン。

Matsumoto says now that things are getting back to normal, the workers can bring their own bento or purchase one, and so there is no need to provide free lunch. Hmmm, it doesn't make sense to me.

そもそも福島第一周辺は店なんかあいてないし、発電所からは出れないし、未明3時とかに宿を出ないといけないし、自分の家から通ってるわけじゃないから弁当を作るわけにもいかない。これを平常時というのは、どういうことなんだろう?

To begin with, there is no store open anywhere near Fukushima I Nuke Plant. Workers cannot leave the plant [during the work], and they have to leave for work at early hours like 3 in the morning. They are not commuting from their own homes so they cannot make their own bento. How can he called it "normal"?

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