Friday, April 1, 2011

Fukushima nuke workers expect to expired: report

TOKYO: Workers at Japan nuclear plant hit - known Fukushima 50 - expect some of them will expire within weeks or months, the mother of one would have said.
Tokyo Electric Power Co said Friday that the radiation leaks from the plant had seeped into groundwater beneath the site.
The leak is an indicator of how the measure is to stabilize TEPCO reactors dangerously overheating after the cooling was removed March 11 tsunami.
Earlier this week, a Japanese minister acknowledged that there was no end in sight to the crisis, although some pumps the world's largest cement are sent to Japan, initially for pumping water but then eventually bury the site as was done at Chernobyl.
The so-called Fukushima 50, who is actually a group of about 300 people who worked in teams of 50, became heroes in Japan and are known as atomic "samurai".
Speaking to a western television by telephone through an interpreter, the mother of a 32 year old worker said his son had told him they were exposed to lethal doses of radiation.
"My son and his colleagues have discussed at length and they are committed to die if necessary to save the nation," she said.
"He said they have agreed they will probably all die of radiation sickness in the short term or long-term cancer," she added.
"They concluded among themselves that it is inevitable some of them may die within weeks or months. They know that it is impossible not to have been exposed to lethal doses of radiation, she said.
The woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the workers were asked not to speak to the media, said his son was too scared to sleep on the floor and had been done on a desktop.

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