"We started work a month ago and have installed more than 100 pipes, so it is all going according to plan to meet our deadline," Tadafumi Asamura, a Kajima manager who is supervising the ice wall construction, said as workers braved rain, humidity and radiation to bore holes in the ground outside reactor No 4, scene of one of three hydrogen explosions at the plant in the early days of the crisis.
"Well, the map didn't say there was construction," said Audra Martinez, as she approached the wall and then turned around.
The project could cost as much as $1 million in total including construction, said Councilman Ed Selich.
"I've been coming since it first opened," Sal Rubino, the retired owner of a construction company, said as he surveyed the peanut clusters and chocolate-covered pretzels.
"What can I say about another country's democracy when my own country's democracy is in poor condition?" Takashi Seno, a 50-year-old construction worker, said as he passed through Shinbashi Station in downtown Tokyo.
"If you don't know people here, you ain't getting in, I don't care if you're the president," Jim Tibbatts, a retired construction worker, said as he shoveled snow at his Edgewater Park home the other day, with days-old whiskers, a blue balaclava and canary-yellow boots.
"Unbelievable construction", said Demaras.
"No, because since I started I never got the same salary I had earned at my construction company," he said as he strolled in the Transatlantico.
They had found bits of work on construction projects, they said, as electricians, plumbers, firefighters, from subcontractors, supply companies, who did not pay them or folded.
"At the end of the day, it's a pain in the backside," Steve Rogers, a construction site manager, said as he puffed on a cigarette near Victoria station the other day.
Jeff Munoz, a partner in the construction company, said that as soon as the episode aired, they were slammed with business.
