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00:03:07 1 Uranium mining and milling
00:03:18 1.1 Canada
00:04:26 1.2 Namibia
00:06:03 1.3 Malawi
00:07:11 1.4 New Zealand and Australia
00:09:11 1.5 United States
00:11:21 2 Asian nuclear industry
00:11:31 2.1 India
00:12:54 2.2 South Korea
00:13:42 2.3 Japan
00:13:51 2.3.1 Fukushima
00:23:42 2.3.2 Tokaimura nuclear facility
00:25:15 3 European nuclear industry
00:25:26 3.1 France
00:27:25 3.2 Russia
00:27:34 3.2.1 Chernobyl (1986)
00:30:19 3.2.2 Mayak Production Association
00:32:07 3.3 United Kingdom
00:35:15 4 American nuclear industry
00:35:26 4.1 Nuclear weapons production workers
00:38:16 4.1.1 Military workers and contractors
00:40:54 4.2 Nuclear weapons production facilities
00:41:05 4.2.1 Fernald Feed Plant – Ohio, US
00:43:18 4.2.2 Hanford Nuclear Reservation – Washington, US
00:45:58 4.2.3 Idaho National Laboratory – Idaho, US
00:47:24 4.2.4 Los Alamos National Laboratories – New Mexico, US
00:48:44 4.2.5 Oak Ridge – Tennessee, US
00:49:38 4.2.6 Pantex Plant – Texas, US
00:52:03 4.2.7 Rocketdyne – California, US
00:54:38 4.2.8 Rocky Flats Plant – Colorado, US
00:56:07 4.2.9 Savannah River Plant
00:57:11 4.3 Commercial nuclear workers
00:58:01 4.3.1 Short-term workers
01:00:17 4.3.2 Divers
01:01:19 4.3.3 Radium workers
01:03:09 4.3.4 Shipyard workers
01:04:13 4.3.5 Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site
01:06:55 4.3.6 Three-mile Island (1979)
01:07:28 4.3.7 Sequoyah Fuels Corporation
01:08:22 4.3.8 West Valley Nuclear Site
01:09:45 5 Waste storage
01:09:55 5.1 Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
01:13:38 6 See also



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Nuclear labor issues exist within the international nuclear power industry and the nuclear weapons production sector worldwide, impacting upon the lives and health of laborers, itinerant workers and their families.A subculture of frequently undocumented workers do the dirty, difficult, and potentially dangerous work shunned by regular employees. They are called in the vernacular Nuclear Nomads, Bio-Robots, Lumnizers, Glow Boys, Radium Girls, the Fukushima 50, Liquidators, Atomic Gypsies, Gamma Sponges, Nuclear Gypsies, Genpatsu Gypsies, Nuclear Samurai and Jumpers. When they exceed their allowable radiation exposure limit at a specific facility, they often migrate to a different nuclear facility. The industry implicitly accepts this conduct as it can not operate without these practices. The World Nuclear Association states that the transient workforce of nuclear gypsies - casual workers employed by subcontractors has been part of the nuclear scene for at least four decades.Existent labor laws protecting worker's health rights are not always properly enforced. Records are required to be kept, but frequently they are not. Some personnel were not properly trained resulting in their own exposure to toxic amounts of radiation. At several facilities there are ongoing failures to perform required radiological screenings or to implement corrective actions.
Many questions regarding these nuclear worker conditions go unanswered, and with the exception of a few whistleblowers, the vast majority of laborers - unseen, underpaid, overworked and exploited, have few incentives to share their stories. The median annual wage for hazardous radioactive materials removal workers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is $37,590 in the U.S - $18 per hour. A 15-country collaborative cohort study of cancer risks due to exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation, involving 407,391 nuclear industry workers showed significant increase in cancer mortality. The study evaluated 31 types of cancers, primary and secondary.