Posted on 03/20/2011 11:57:29 AM PDT by Niuhuru
They are an anonymous band of lower and mid-level managers who are risking their lives at the very heart of Japan’s nuclear crisis.
But as the stricken reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant appears to stabilise, plant owners are still remaining tight-lipped about the so-called 'Fukushima Fifty' - the heroes fighting to save Japan from nuclear catastrophe.
Fifty essential workers stayed behind to stop a catastrophic meltdown at the plant, as 750 of their colleagues were evacuated earlier this week when the over-heating seemed to be getting out of control.
Five are now believed to have died, 15 are injured and others have said they know the radiation will kill them as they battle to cool overheating reactors and spent fuel rods.
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At low levels, there are indications there is truth in what she says. I don’t believe she was talking about exposure at the levels these guys saw, and further don’t think threadjacking this thread to attack Ann, instead of focusing on these heroes, is appropriate.
Even if they received a lethal dose of radiation it wouldn’t have killed them by now.
Low levels?, The “low levels at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, & Chernobyl? Ann was exactly correct.
Somebody should tell the author that there are many more than 50 people rotating in and out of those areas.
It sounded weird the way she presented it...but
I agree with you...the thread is about some very real heroes...sorry.
Coulter is correct.....too much hysterics about radiation....it's the dose that kills....not radiation per se.
““Unfortunately, the information coming out is limited and often contradictory.”
Could it be that the word needed there is “dishonest?””
Ya mean after the 5th largest earthquake in recorded history, a tsunami that was over 60 feet high in some places, fires, explosions, death of families and entire families, AND not 1, not 2 not 3, ney not even 4, but more than 6 nuclear reactors in crisis, the information coming coming out of the core of this activity may be piecemeal and contradictory.
WOW imagine that. It was probably the job of the 21,000 and first person to distribute information correctly. If only that one guy hadn’t been killed.
There would be plenty of volunteers in an American plant.
One can only imagine what it must be like to be on the top of one of those containment buildings, clad in a lead suit and mask, the clock ticking, and attacking a piece of exposed rebar with a portable sawzall or concrete drill, trying to open a ventilation hole and knowing that one spark could set off the hydrogen drifting up from below. Needless to say, it is probably not a task that is covered in the plant operator manual.
Who and what it was directed at were those who get hysterical over the slightest elevation in background radiation. She NEVER suggested that basking in the glow of an exposed nuclear reactor core was a good and healthy thing to do.
As others pointed out this was not her "opinion" but was citing recognized scientific research about slightly elevated radiation levels not be harmful and possibly beneficial to humans. I feel she did a great service in helping some people understand that all radiation exposure is not the same. At least those not so hysterical.
It's not Ann that needs to be spanked [Although if someone must do it, I will volunteer for that duty] but it is those who misrepresent what she said.
These men felt honored.
Five are now believed to have died, 15 are injured and others have said they know the radiation will kill them as they battle to cool overheating reactors and spent fuel rods.
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Call me back when you are sure that 5 are dead, and that they died from radiation poisoning.
Well, maybe so...but she did come off as strange to me as she was not qualifying her take on it all that there is truly grave danger from what is happening in Japan. Did you hear her say that? It sounded like to me she was downplaying the entire event...I was not saying that she said it was okay to bask in front of an exposed reactor, you are exarrating a bit there....but she was downplaying the danger. I know that is how she came across to me.
...With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer...
Part of what Ann said...I do not think I distorted how she came off. Really a bit nutty I think. Ok, I will shut up now as this thread is about some very real heroes who are thus due to the fact that many of them WILL most likely get very ill and die for trying to save Japan from a worse catastrophy!
If you heard what she said, you'd be neither shocked nor disgusted. She spoke against hysteria about radiation.
Anyone interested to learn the TRUE meaning of the word ‘martyr’ will find iot these men. They deserve enshrinement at Yasukuni.
Anyone interested to learn the TRUE meaning of the word ‘martyr’ will find it in these men. They deserve enshrinement at Yasukuni.
In no way do I wish to diminish their sacrifice on behalf of their fellow citizens but, there are many (if not all) of the TEPCO employees at this plant who have lost everyone in their families and the vast majority of those in their lives (not to mention the physical possessions which are a distant second to the loss of your "others").
I would suspect that TEPCO had to turn down many of their employees who volunteered for the highly lethal tasks they needed to perform! Heroes are but ordinary people who perform heroic deeds when circumstances require heroes!
They need a sawzall with a plexiglass dome over the front half (cutting area) so that sparks are contained from the atmoshpere of the tool opeator.
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