Report: contractors at Fukushima told to lie about radiation levels

07/21/12: Al Jazeera reports a subcontractor at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant told workers to lie about possible high radiation exposure in an apparent effort to keep its contract.  An executive at construction firm Build-Up in December told about ten of its workers to cover their dosimeters (used to measure cumulative radiation exposure) with lead casings when working in areas with high radiation, a Japanese newspaper and other media reported on Saturday.  Dosimeters can be worn as badges or carried as devices around the size of a smartphone to detect radiation.  The action was apparently designed to under-report their exposure to allow the company to continue working at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in a generation, the reports said.