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Fukushima 50 risk lives to prevent meltdown
We do not know their names, their faces, their families or their personal stories. Nobody really does. They are strangers, in a faraway land, doing the unthinkable.
In Japan they have a name: The Fukushima 50. A coterie of nuclear plant employees some reports indicate 50, others suggest four working rotations of 50 who stayed behind while 700 of their co-workers were evacuated from the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi facility on the Japanese coast.
Five have been killed. Two are missing. Twenty-one have been injured in a struggle where, in the words of Japans Prime Minister Naoto Kan, retreat is unthinkable.
The men understand the stakes. They know there is no turning back. One worker told a departing colleague he was prepared to die that it was his job. Another informed his wife he wouldnt be coming home anytime soon.
We do not know their names, their faces, their families or their personal stories. Nobody really does. They are strangers, in a faraway land, doing the unthinkable.
In Japan they have a name: The Fukushima 50. A coterie of nuclear plant employees some reports indicate 50, others suggest four working rotations of 50 who stayed behind while 700 of their co-workers were evacuated from the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi facility on the Japanese coast.
Five have been killed. Two are missing. Twenty-one have been injured in a struggle where, in the words of Japans Prime Minister Naoto Kan, retreat is unthinkable.
The men understand the stakes. They know there is no turning back. One worker told a departing colleague he was prepared to die that it was his job. Another informed his wife he wouldnt be coming home anytime soon.
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