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More Than Half of Cleanup Staff at Fukushima Nuclear Plant on Counterfeit Contracts
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Andrew Miller
Mar 14, 2013
It has come to light that the Japanese government’s Fukushima Daiichi cleanup plan is failing due to problems concerning counterfeit contracts. The government is now left reassessing its human resource strategy and considering how to effectively secure the number of employees required to carry out the work. As it presently stands, more than half of the laborers employed at the nuclear site are suspected of being involved in counterfeit contract work.
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