[justa-hairyape]

BBC Update [We will need to build some monuments for these guys].

0725: Philip White, of the Citizens' Nuclear Information Center in Tokyo, tells the BBC he honours the courage of some 50 workers remaining in the nuclear plant, saying they are risking their lives by exposing themselves to what are conceivably very high doses of radiation.

[AmericanInTokyo]

They love their country, Japan, and they will give their lives for their country if need be by going into that Fukushima Genpatsu radioactive hell, to save their fellow countrymen and women in and around that general area of Fukushima. Normal everyday Japanese names like Kimura, Nakayama, Tanaka, Saito, Kaneko, Matsuda, Kato. It is the Japanese samurai spirit and of the "divine winds" (yes, horrific if you are on the receiving end of this self-sacrifice, they used it on us and our aircraft carriers years ago when we were not friends with Japan), to go out of the village and unflinchingly take on an enemy maybe even 100 times stronger and face the prospect of near death, all for the sake that the forces will not enter the village and harm one's people. It is their duty 義務, their obligation 義理 and if they demise as a result of this, their families will be heralded as heroes in their stead and every effort will be made to take care of them.

I pray they are well-protected, are successful, and come back to the man without injury or sickness.

[little jeremiah]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapc...ion/index.html

“U.S. Navy aircraft carrier detects radiation

By the CNN Wire Staff
March 15, 2011 1:07 a.m. EDT

U.S. Navy personnel are taking precautionary measures after instruments aboard an aircraft carrier docked in Japan detected low levels of radioactivity from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the Navy said Tuesday.

The USS George Washington was docked for maintenance in Yokosuka, about 175 miles (280 kilometers) from the plant, when instruments detected the radiation at 7 a.m. Tuesday (6 p.m. ET Monday), the Navy said in a statement.

Personnel will limit outdoor activities and secure external ventilation systems there and at a nearby air facility in Atsugi.

“These measures are strictly precautionary in nature. We do not expect that any United States federal radiation exposure limits will be exceeded even if no precautionary measures are taken,” the Navy said...”