Some of Them May Die Within Weeks

March 31, 2011

Some of Them May Die Within Weeks

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Japan’s Nuclear Rescuers: ‘Inevitable Some of Them May Die Within Weeks’.

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.”

Priorities. Japan has some very dedicated and loyal people.

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NomNomNom Says:

March 31, 2011 at 12:35 pm
It was like that at Chernobyl too. It’s very sad. But what is sadder still is that it will probably all be for nothing, as the nuke industry has no intention of going under, and it will suppress these employees’ sacrifice as fast and as as completely as they can.
1. mcnorman Says:
  
  March 31, 2011 at 1:11 pm
  I feel for the families Nom. The companies go on, but the families are going to watch this death sentence play out. Heartbreaking.
2. mcnorman Says:
  
  March 31, 2011 at 1:18 pm
  From Greenconsciousness @ UW site
  blog.greenconsciousness.org
  
  http://www.thenation.com/article/159213/nuclear-hubris-could-japans-disaster-happen-here
  
  We also have atomic plants built on fault lines. For example, the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant’s units 1 and 2 not far from Santa Barbara, and outside San Clemente there’s the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, which has three reactors, two of which are still running.
  
  Environmentalists protested and bitterly opposed the opening of these plants along the California coast in a region of regular and often violent seismic activity. But as in Japan, their concerns were brushed aside with assurances that all contingencies had been taken into account.
  
  The American fleet of 103 atomic reactors is old and rickety. But more dangerous than the old and brittle equipment, according to Bradford, may be overconfidence among regulators and managers. “The phrase ‘it can’t happen here’ is an invitation to disaster,” said Bradford.
  
  Mix technological arrogance with the profit motive, and you get slipshod management, corner-cutting and repeated lying.
  
  As I’ve detailed in these pages in the past the American discourse around nuclear energy is somewhat schizophrenic. At one level, conservatives and some greens carry on a profoundly out-of-touch discussion about the merits of fourth-generation and miniature nuclear power plants. None of these schemes will be built due to their extremely prohibitive costs.
  
  But in the meantime, there is an overlooked yet very real campaign by industry to relicense and extend by 50 percent the operation of our rickety old existing fleet of reactors.
  
  And get this—a quarter of our reactors are leaking or have leaked radioactive carcinogenic, tritium-polluted water. (See “Zombie Nuke Plants,” December 7, 2009.)
NomNomNom Says:

March 31, 2011 at 1:31 pm
I saw the Nation article, I don’t usually go there (fake liberals, ugh), but got sent via link.
1. mcnorman Says:
  
  March 31, 2011 at 1:34 pm
  fake liberals
  
  I swear…label NSFW. ROFL

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