The Skilled Veterans are alerting the international community to the serious problems with the cleanup at Fukushima Daiichi. 11,400 fuel rods are stuck in damaged buildings, and in Unit 4 100 feet up in the air. If they were to lose cooling during the 20 year plus removal to safe storage a fire could spread 85 times the amount of Cs137 of the Chernobyl accident around the globe.
Yastel Yamada is co-founder and Director of their organization, the Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima (SVCF). The elders are offering to work in the most dangerous areas of Fukushima Daiichi to protect younger workers from high radiation doses. They are retired workers from Fukushima, and engineers and technicians from other branches of industry. However 14 months later TEPCO has not yet given them permission to work.
Through August 2012 Yamada is on a speaking tour in the US. The SVCF has two primary goals. To inform the US public about the very serious problems of the cleanup at the plant, and secondly, to appeal to the US government to put pressure on the Japanese government to convince TEPCO to allow the Skilled Veterans to work.
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