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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Makes me feel choked up.
wow, maybe someone should send this article to Ann Coulter who was on talkradio friday saying that radiation exposure is way over blown and actually has some positive effects! O my...
the 5 were most likely killed by the explosions, not radiation
I really am shocked and disgusted that she said that.
My first thoughts were that the huge explosions probably killed them.
“wow, maybe someone should send this article to Ann Coulter who was on talkradio friday saying that radiation exposure is way over blown and actually has some positive effects! O my...”
You missed the hydrogen explosions that blew the tops off the buildings and killed them??
You’ve heard the expression “the dose makes the poison”? Of course those working at the reactors are in danger because they are getting high doses. Those further away (including here in the US) are in absolutely no danger.
Sadly, many here on FR sound like Greenpeace activists saying there is no safe dose of radiation.
in small doses radiation may be beneficial
I knew of these studies years ago
In high doses of course it can kill you immediately
the same as with antibiotics small dose = good, large dose can kill you too
On early report said the first to die was operating a crane in the area over the first reactor to have a hydrogen explosion.
The quoted radiation exposure for the workers is high, but not near fatal doses.
Unfortunately, the information coming out is limited and often contradictory.
All right, that’s enough. This thread is getting far to reasonable.
All you guys citing science and credible research, and you know who you are, give me one rank right here.
Now, repeat after me:
DOOMED, DOOMED, DOOMED, WE’RE ALL DOOMED. WE’LL ALL BE DEAD BY THIS TIME TOMORROW.
I can’t hear you, ladies.
With that out of the way, “There are a band?” Illiterate bastard.
A long time observer of the Japanese culture told me last Tuesday: "There will be more than enough volunteers to get the job done".
I doubt that she was talkng about radiation in the facility.
“Unfortunately, the information coming out is limited and often contradictory.”
Could it be that the word needed there is “dishonest?”
That jerk knows that there haven’t been five deaths from radiation sickness.
Well, I suppose, but she sounded nutty about it considering the very real dangers and effects being felt now. It did sound like she was saying there is little danger to the whole event. Ann can be a bit kooky and emotional at times.
“I really am shocked and disgusted that she said that.”
I would venture to speculate that you may be shocked and disgusted at what the lamestream misleadia said that she said, rather than at what she actually said.
Experience would lead a reasonable person to bet the family farm that those two things are not the same.
Note the words: "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."
Those nasty, could care less "plant owners" using the lives of those people without a care about them or their families is the intimation, or the attempted subliminal intent. I find this wording quite propagandist by Leftist MSM.
"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."
The Daily Mail says "they believe" five are dead, so that means they don't know, right!? Therefore the other stats are suspect in my mind.
I think they published this as part of their participation in the coordinated Leftist assault on the nuclear industry personally.
I'm saddened the Left finds it so convenient to use the crisis, and the sorrow, and the pain we all feel for the Japanese people at this time for advantage in advancing their anti nuclear agenda.
“It did sound like she was saying there is little danger to the whole event.”
Yeah, that’s pretty much the case.
These anti-nuke maniacs keep calling Three-Mile Island a “disaster,” even though no one was killed and there was no significant release of radioactive material.
Chernobyl was a disaster. That disaster was the direct result of leftist thought. If Satan hadn’t whispered in Karl Marx’s ear, it never would have happened.
No plant in the West is as poorly designed, shoddily constructed, or incompetently operated as Chernobyl. (Which goes double for Japan. I mean, a 9.0 earthquake and the reactors were fine, until a tsunami knocked the aux diesels off line? Now *that’s* some engineering.)
“I think they published this as part of their participation in the coordinated Leftist assault on the nuclear industry personally.”
That’s pretty clear.
“I’m saddened the Left finds it so convenient to use the crisis, and the sorrow, and the pain we all feel for the Japanese people at this time for advantage in advancing their anti nuclear agenda.”
Really? I’m infuriated. I have family in Yokohama, and it’s not right that they should be terrorized by leftard scoundrels.
All leftists out of the media, now.
I’ve been thinking since the beginning this would be the result. Bless them, they are true heroes, no matter the ultimate outcome. Which is looking better and better every day, by the way.
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