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Fukushima 50 battle radiation risks as Japan nuclear crisis deepens

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Who are the "Fukushima 50" -- the workers trying to take regain control of Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant?

Twitter messages and blog posts by the workers' families offer an inkling of the "Fukushima 50," so nicknamed because the 180 employees at the site work in 50-person shifts.

One of the workers is a veteran power plant worker, a 59-year-old who volunteered to take on the assignment, according to Jiji Press, a Japanese news wire service, quoting a woman who claimed to be his daughter on Twitter. The job puts him at risk of exposure to dangerous amounts of radiation that could cause death or lead to a higher risk of cancer.

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2 comments // Fukushima 50 battle radiation risks as Japan nuclear crisis deepens

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    • AD, you are not really suggesting that one forfeits their status as a private citizen once they are gainfully employed, such as military personnel, are you?

      Granted, that as they are employees, they know the plant better than non employees. And granted, that as non military personnel, they have the right to refuse to sacrifice their lives.

      However, as you are living there, can you deny the pressure that social honor, vs. social dishonor, and commitment to national honor, plays in these workers decision to take on this task?

      Can it really be argued that if the plant owners had installed a backup power system, eg., battery, wind, petroleum fueled or otherwise, for their plants in a country renown for earthquakes, that these workers would not be in a position of having to forfeit their lives for their county, the people of their country, and possibly the lives of those living well beyond their country? Are not the lives of all Japanese, and their much revered honor, at stake here? Have they not been placed in this position by the saving money over saving lives nature of industry?

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