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"Thanks for your good job. I heard that you posted what I had told you the other day on your FB.
Well, since it is my day off, I am writing you our current situation.
Honestly, our technology available now is not enough (to remove the spent fuel rods). We have a severe manpower shortage and the radiation level is way too high to go near the site.
To make the matters worse, recently we lost more workers due to TEPCO's weird atmosphere.
The number of workers is less than a half of what we used to have in the summer.
As for tanks, maybe this has not reported yet, there are leaking spots here and there. Two to three workers are assigned to check more than 400 tanks and pipes. This kind of work load is too much to finish in a day.
The workers are told to do this every day. TEPCO takes measure for whatever the problems reported by the media but nothing has been done for other issues (that are not covered by the media).
When I have a Geiger counter, my 10 sievert meter goes off the scale easily here and there.
This happens when I am 50 centimeters away. So if I get any closer, I will be dead.
Comment: Hedges writes, "If a nonviolent popular movement is able to ideologically disarm the bureaucrats, civil servants and police - to get them, in essence, to defect - nonviolent revolution is possible."
This is a big 'if', given that no such movement exists. 'Revolution' is an interesting choice of word for the type of widespread political and socio-economic change that many seek: a complete revolution is a movement that takes something, in this case masses of people, from one state... all the way back around to that same state!
And here we can learn from human history that life on planet Earth is a merry-go-round: it never stops, and although it changes forms, it keeps repeating the same essential dynamics.
What it comes down to for each individual is the question: what does change mean for you? Do you REALLY want change? Are you really sick of this ride yet?