OMG, the earthquake, tsunami and now nuclear crisis have me gripped. Amazingly, I get most of my news from http://google.com/news and from youtube.com videos. The world is changing. But out of all that, my heart goes out to the workers at the Daiichi plant…
As an aside, these are the live reporting sites I’ve found to be useful besides google News:
The most terrifying are how safety works in Japan if Business Week is at all accurate.
But it The National Post says it all..
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 Japan’s 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 wouldn’t be coming home anytime soon.
