Tokyo / Berlin .- Fukushima are heroes, and perhaps the first victims. About 50 people fighting against the clock in the damaged nuclear power plant against a nuclear disaster with unforeseeable consequences. Everything seems to point more and more that this is a mission that does not have a happy ending.
The Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, appeared in overalls (mono) Blue and tired expression praising the workers who fight against hell of Fukushima. "They have to be determined to solve it," he was quoted by Kyodo news agency. Fifty people continue to fight the dreaded catastrophe. Suicide intervention workers in the plant have been ordered at the highest levels.
The world trembles in fear while along with these people, whose identity has not leaked so far. Since Kan issued a warning on Tuesday, the situation has further deteriorated. Fukushima I have become a heap of scrap steel and structural remains of buildings from the steam and smoke emanating.
The Fukushima 50, as they are called, crawl, according to local media, through the maze of the damaged installation. Within walking distance are the fuel rods from a total of six blocks, whose nuclei are likely to merge or are already partially fused. Japan's government and the company small atomic information beyond just what happens in the plant.
However, thanks in part to expert interpretation, Japanese media, the New York Times, the Guardian or even Le Figaro, among others, has managed to make a shocking image. TEPCO employees wear masks to breathe. Some even carry on your back oxygen tanks. Their protective clothing and special hats radioactive particles repel, but not invisible radiation.
750 other workers were saved. They know that those who remained in Fukushima I are risking their health. Dozens of them are already injured, 11 of them because of a hydrogen explosion in block 3. What they do not now appear in any manual. Trying to fire pumps, which are not designed for that purpose, injecting large amounts of sea water in the reactors.
Desperate struggle to maintain operational pumps or electrical installations or put them into operation should not be operational. Two other blocks on the verge of a colossal catastrophe may still be refrigerated this way. However, there are several active fires. Workers can not extinguish the fire and at times are forced to retreat.
The Army plans to fly over Blocks 3 and 4 to cool the fuel rods with water and boric acid had to be suspended. The authorities decided as a last way to use water cannons vehicles. The question was posed today many why these people risk their lives. Surely influence the fact that Japanese education is given great value to the sacrifice of the individual by the community.
To all this might add a sense of solidarity in a plant of that type. "You develop a sense for the loyalty and companionship when training for years along with other men and make shift changes," said a central operator of a North American who has spent many years in the profession at the New York Times.
A man in Shimane prefecture, located hundreds of miles Fukushima, even volunteered. The 59-year employee of a power group, who will retire in September, said, according to the Jiji news agency: "At this point is changing the history of nuclear energy, just as I am about to retire from the profession ".
What are the chances of Fukushima 50? After the Chernobyl accident killed dozens of workers to remove debris and rubble. Japan's Health Ministry raised the maximum levels of radiation which allows operators to work from 100 to 250 millisievert. On Tuesday, authorities in Japan recorded several hundred millisievert at nuclear facilities, then the value increased even at 1 sievert (1,000 millisievert), but then fell again.
Radiation experts say that in the event of a nuclear accident, symptoms of exposure to radiation levels of between 1 and 6 sievert are nausea, vomiting, fever and hair loss. The workers apparently are taking turns continuously in the central parts of the higher radioactivity to decrease the degree of exposure. 
The Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, appeared in overalls (mono) Blue and tired expression praising the workers who fight against hell of Fukushima. "They have to be determined to solve it," he was quoted by Kyodo news agency. Fifty people continue to fight the dreaded catastrophe. Suicide intervention workers in the plant have been ordered at the highest levels.
The world trembles in fear while along with these people, whose identity has not leaked so far. Since Kan issued a warning on Tuesday, the situation has further deteriorated. Fukushima I have become a heap of scrap steel and structural remains of buildings from the steam and smoke emanating.
The Fukushima 50, as they are called, crawl, according to local media, through the maze of the damaged installation. Within walking distance are the fuel rods from a total of six blocks, whose nuclei are likely to merge or are already partially fused. Japan's government and the company small atomic information beyond just what happens in the plant.
However, thanks in part to expert interpretation, Japanese media, the New York Times, the Guardian or even Le Figaro, among others, has managed to make a shocking image. TEPCO employees wear masks to breathe. Some even carry on your back oxygen tanks. Their protective clothing and special hats radioactive particles repel, but not invisible radiation.
750 other workers were saved. They know that those who remained in Fukushima I are risking their health. Dozens of them are already injured, 11 of them because of a hydrogen explosion in block 3. What they do not now appear in any manual. Trying to fire pumps, which are not designed for that purpose, injecting large amounts of sea water in the reactors.
Desperate struggle to maintain operational pumps or electrical installations or put them into operation should not be operational. Two other blocks on the verge of a colossal catastrophe may still be refrigerated this way. However, there are several active fires. Workers can not extinguish the fire and at times are forced to retreat.
The Army plans to fly over Blocks 3 and 4 to cool the fuel rods with water and boric acid had to be suspended. The authorities decided as a last way to use water cannons vehicles. The question was posed today many why these people risk their lives. Surely influence the fact that Japanese education is given great value to the sacrifice of the individual by the community.
To all this might add a sense of solidarity in a plant of that type. "You develop a sense for the loyalty and companionship when training for years along with other men and make shift changes," said a central operator of a North American who has spent many years in the profession at the New York Times.
A man in Shimane prefecture, located hundreds of miles Fukushima, even volunteered. The 59-year employee of a power group, who will retire in September, said, according to the Jiji news agency: "At this point is changing the history of nuclear energy, just as I am about to retire from the profession ".
What are the chances of Fukushima 50? After the Chernobyl accident killed dozens of workers to remove debris and rubble. Japan's Health Ministry raised the maximum levels of radiation which allows operators to work from 100 to 250 millisievert. On Tuesday, authorities in Japan recorded several hundred millisievert at nuclear facilities, then the value increased even at 1 sievert (1,000 millisievert), but then fell again.
Radiation experts say that in the event of a nuclear accident, symptoms of exposure to radiation levels of between 1 and 6 sievert are nausea, vomiting, fever and hair loss. The workers apparently are taking turns continuously in the central parts of the higher radioactivity to decrease the degree of exposure.
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