Dead Heros.......This is from a japanese newspaper on Mar 17, 2011. I have to wonder how many Canadian or American workers would put their lives in this kind of danger for an employer?
Hey Jim, jump into that water there and pull the plug. BTW, its got 10,000. times as much rads in it than is safe. Jim...................Jim..............Wheres Jim gone? He just quit. Any body else want to jump into the radioactive soup? Where has everyone gone? Personally....I would rather be a live coward than a dead hero.
A TEAM of volunteers were last night risking their lives to prevent further catastrophe at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
The 180 brave technicians were working around the clock in shifts,battling to cool the overheating reactors in the burning power station.
They are nicknamed the Fukushima 50 as they work in teams of 50,exposing themselves to potentially deadly levels of radiation for 15minutes at a time.
But one man said: "We are not afraid to die."
A source said: "They are the bravest of the brave and have put themselves before their country."
The workers fled the plant in the early hours of yesterday after radiation levels rose.
But they returned after Japan raised the maximum radiation dose allowed for workers from 100 to 250 millisieverts.
The average human gets a dose of six millisieverts of background radiation in a year.
Wearing white, full-body jumpsuits, the teams have to crawl through labyrinths of overheating equipment in total darkness.
Experts said their radiation suits and oxygen tanks provide little protection from the deadly rays seeping into their bodies.
Their bravery is even more astonishing considering five of their colleagues are dead and two are still missing.