The Faceless 50
by Noelle ~ March 21st, 2011. Filed under: COMM 299.The people that inspired me most are “The Faceless 50”. They are a group of brace technicians who stayed behind in the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant five days after the devastating tsunami in Japan.
Quoted from the New York Times, “ They have volunteered, or been assigned, to pump seawater on dangerously exposed nuclear fuel, already thought to be partly melting and spewing radioactive material, to prevent full meltdowns that could throw thousands of tons of radioactive dust high into the air and imperil millions of their compatriots.”
I was greatly inspired by their bravery and willingness to sacrifice for the country. The amount of radiation that each worker could be exposed to is five times the maximum exposure permitted for American nuclear plant workers. Even they knew about the health damage that would cause to them, none of them tried to quit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk