Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident

The discovery is likely to revive criticism of the foreign trainee program, which has been accused of placing workers in substandard conditions and jobs that provide few opportunities for learning, the government said Friday. The misconduct was uncovered in a probe by the Justice Ministry conducted after three Vietnamese trainees, who were in the country to learn professional skills, were found in March to have participated in cleanup work in Fukushima. The Vietnamese were supposed to do work using construction machines according to plans submitted by the company. "But they joined simple cleanup work such as removing soil without machines," an official told AFP. A powerful earthquake in March 2011 spawned a huge tsunami that led to meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant, causing the world's worst such accident since Chernobyl in 1986. The justice ministry said after the discovery this March that decontamination work was not appropriate for foreign trainees. One of the four … [Read more...] about Japan firms used Vietnamese, foreign trainees at Fukushima cleanup

Hanoi authorities have approved a project to mitigate risks that could potentially result in disasters for the Vietnamese capital, including nuclear incidents in China. The radiation risk is the only overseas factor the city is worried about, among 10 potential disaster-inducing risks that it is going to focus on. Hanoi is one of the places in northern Vietnam that would be "seriously affected" if the three nuclear plants in southern China encounter incidents, a document on the project said. "Radioactive dust could spread far and wide, polluting the air and water sources," it said. The city has tasked the Department of Science and Technology with drafting a detailed scenario for tackling radiation leaks and nuclear accidents. The three Chinese nuclear power plants, which went into operation in 2016, stand in Guangxi and Guangdong Provinces and Hainan Island, all close to Vietnam's northern border. The plant in Guangxi is 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Quang Ninh Province, home to the … [Read more...] about Hanoi names China’s possible radiation leaks among top ‘disaster’ risks