Mar 15 2011
“ The workers are being asked to make escalating — and perhaps existential — sacrifices that so far are being only implicitly acknowledged: Japan’s Health Ministry said Tuesday it was raising the legal limit on the amount of radiation to which each worker could be exposed, to 250 millisieverts from 100 millisieverts, five times the maximum exposure permitted for American nuclear plant workers.
NY Times. Fifty men stayed behind while 750 from the plant were evacuated.
Did the fifty volunteer? Were they chosen? What was said between the men leaving and those remaining?
Fifty men fighting radioactive fires, alone. Doomed heroes.
