Japan's Nuclear Rescuers: 'Inevitable Some of Them May Die Within Weeks'

[Octafish]

Source: Fox News

By Dominic Di-Natale
Published March 31, 2011
FoxNews.com

Workers at the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan say they expect to die from radiation sickness as a result of their efforts to bring the reactors under control, the mother of one of the men tells Fox News.

The so-called Fukushima 50, the team of brave plant workers struggling to prevent a meltdown to four reactors critically damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, are being repeatedly exposed to dangerously high radioactive levels as they attempt to bring vital cooling systems back online.

Speaking tearfully through an interpreter by phone, the mother of a 32-year-old worker said: “My son and his colleagues have discussed it at length and they have committed themselves to die if necessary to save the nation.

“He told me they have accepted they will all probably die from radiation sickness in the short term or cancer in the long-term.”



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/31/japans-nuclear-rescuers-inevitable-die-weeks/

[closeupready]

1. Correlation is not causation.

:sarcasm: Waiting for pro-nuclear voices to offer that argument. :mad:

[Octafish]

2. What is their half-life?

After a while, we won't even notice them. Or the plutonium.

[avaistheone1]

3. I have already heard from my republican friend at work.

All she could say was "People are going to use the nuclear plant situation in Japan as a case against the expansion of nuclear power, and then we will all have to pay more for gasoline and other energy". This woman didn't have a drop of compassion for the Japanese people, or any concern regarding the consequences to the environment from this disaster.

What a turd she is, and so are people that think like her. :puke: :puke: :puke:

[ladywnch]

5. you should know by now that rethugs/teabaggers only care about themselves

and how events are going to affect THEM.


I hear these people talk and all I can see is Al Franken on SNL years ago talking about the "me" generation during the Regan administration......the running joke was every thought ended with, '....for me, Al Franken'. Sadly, it is still the running joke in this country. The only thing they care about is what affects them personally RIGHT NOW.



(note: I apologize if I used the affect incorrectly. I've always been confused with 'effect' and 'affect')

[obxhead]

16. effect them in the future.

They all support only things that help the ultra rich, which will one day be them. :eyes:

[ladywnch]

24. 'one day' is someone else's problem. with them, like Wall Street

the 'future' only extends 3 months out.....the next quarter. Beyond that is just not realistic. Kinda fatalistic when you think about it......the future only extends 3 months at a time......

[closeupready]

6. Agreed, and gawd, how typical of a puke, ain't it, to talk like that?

:mad: Everything is always about THEM. :eyes:

[Avant Guardian]

8. Republicans loath the common good

All they know is selfishness

[SomeGuyInEagan]

19. "ME-publicans" n/t

[gratuitous]

12. Their powers of reasoning are teh awesome

They see a direct connection between limiting the expansion of nuclear power and the price of gasoline. At the very same time, they see no connection between lower taxes for the wealthy and higher deficits.

Yeah, she's a turd.

[roguevalley]

27. reminds me of the helicopter pilots who dumped concrete on

chernobyl. they knew they were dead too. God bless them. They are truly good.

[liberation]

28. We should start taking bets.

I am willing to put money on them using the untold dangers of banana overdoses, a popular food in Japan around this time of the year.

[Zorra]

4. Straight up heroes. The people of Japan should ensure that these heroes

and their families will get anything they want forever.

Hoping for a miracle and that none of them get sick.

[Octafish]

14. Heroic is the word. One 'nuclear samurai' recalls meltdown struggle...

Nuclear samurai recalls meltdown struggle

A Japanese nuclear official who spent five days inside the Fukushima nuclear plant has described the tough working and living conditions inside the crippled nuclear facility.

ABC (Australia)
By North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy
Updated Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:36am AEDT

Kazuma Yokota is being hailed as a modern samurai - one of the so-called Fukushima 50 who stayed at the crippled plant as its reactors threatened to melt down in the wake of Japan's devastating earthquake and huge tsunami.

SNIP...

"The workers inside the plant were toiling very hard. We'd have emergency biscuits for breakfast and a small bag of rice for dinner. There was the odd can of food too.

"The workers were all sleeping together in the plant's meeting room, in the hallway and in front of the toilet."

SNIP...

"We had lead sheets brought in and put on the floors to block the radiation," Mr Yokota said.

CONTINUED...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/30/3177324.htm?section=justin

With you, hoping for justice and miracles, Zorra.

[Avant Guardian]

7. "they have committed themselves to die if necessary to save the nation."

Many have already died, and many have come up missing. Stem cells are being harvested from workers before they go to work at the plant so they can be given bone marrow transplants later to save their lives.

Japanese society is geared away from the individual and towards the common good.

[Delphinus]

11. Interesting to know -

that their culture is for the collective good, rather than for individual good.

[Botany]

9. Heros w/ out a doubt

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

[indimuse]

10. KNR! n/t

[blackspade]

13. These are truly brave people.

I just hope that the Japanese people respect and remember them, and that Tepco is held accountable for their deaths.

[Uncle Joe]

15. Kicked and recommended.

My heart goes out to the workers and their families. :-(

Thanks for the thread, Octafish.

[greiner3]

17. And I believe in anything coming from Fox;

Why?

[Octafish]

22. Dunno. Quotes anonymous. Like the 'no harm from plutonium' press release from TEPCO.

Where's the boss?

[liberation]

29. You're right

The dangers of Plutonium are nothing but a vast right wing conspiracy.

[SoapBox]

18. This just makes me sick...

...these poor people.

I simply cannot imagine losing my life for a stupid nuclear plant.

Hey GOBPers, RushThugs and T.HaterBaggers...here are some REAL heroes.

[tavalon]

32. They aren't losing their lives for the plant

But rather for their fellow countrymen.

[bucolic_frolic]

20. PA Governor said nuclear power is safe

Ever notice those who profit from hazardous industries are never willing to put them or their families in the middle of the hazard?

[Geoffrey_Lebowski]

21. Fox and their Oxymorons

'Inevitable that SOME of them MAY die within weeks'?

'Some may' by it's definition means that it's not 'inevitable'. Otherwise, you'd say 'some WILL'.

These people are straight-up f***ing HEROES though, no doubt!

[Octafish]

23. For analysis, I like this blog: AK Rockefeller

Who Really Needs Nuclear Power? Big Business, That's Who!

AK Rockefeller was recently informed that Mitsubishi was the driving force behind building the Fukushima power plant, and that they had been warned that its safety could not be guaranteed in the event of a natural disaster. Indeed most of the nuclear facilities in Japan appear to have been built by and for Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Toshiba, GE & Westinghouse. These companies profit not only through their use of the energy, but in the building of the plants themselves. And no doubt, they lobbied the government to help them get the plants built, and they funded the “independent” studies that either fraudulently verified their safety or confirmed that they were unsafe, but were subsequently suppressed.

[defendandprotect]

25. "SOME" is too many to sacrifice for energy -- not to mention overall damage to Japan and

constant and continuing health risks for Japanese -- !!

Every nuclear plant should be shut down -- there are lots of other ways to

boil water!!

This was always about proving that we didn't have to "Ban the Bomb!" --

See how wonderful this stuff is -- can't wait to be the next Japan!

[iemitsu]

26. yep, you're right.

the nuke plants were and are about proving that there was a "positive" use for the awful poison we created.

[liberation]

30. Just be glad they did not insult them and placed a question mark at the end...

... to disavow any responsibility from the insult and innuendo.

that is their trademark.

[freshwest]

31. The real pro-lifers are in Japan. May their last journey be peaceful. Tears in our eyes.

[tabasco]

33. "Inevitable some may die" ??

What kind of moron wrote this crap and what kind of idiot gives it any credence?