Would you be willing to give your life for others like the Japanese Firefighters?


Without question, the Japanese Firefighters are faced with a horrendous incident that keeps getting worse. One of the key tactics for now is keeping the reactor cores from going critical, which means dropping water from helicopters and operating monitors on the ground. 

For the firefighters on the ground, it stands to reason that the amount of radiation they are encountering will cause cancer and a pre-mature death. They know this, yet just like the Russian firefighters in Chernobyl, many will perish because of the lethal exposure to radiation.

  1. Would you sacrifice your life for others, knowing you will die within months? 
  2. Who would be selected to do the job, knowing it has to be done? 
  3. Do you think the politicians and opportunists attacking firefighters today ever think about this part of emergency services?

CBz

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Permalink Reply by Nenad on April 5, 2011 at 3:55am
The explanation to term liqiudator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidator_(Chernobyl)

Here in my part of Croatia, we are dealing with regular preparations for summer fire season. Next week we will partecipate in annual training with helicopter. Next month is regular medic check.
Statisticly we are dealing with 3 calls per day in an area of 85000 inhabitants.
Permalink Reply by Barbu-Maximilian Laurentiu on April 5, 2011 at 10:34am
Although it seems complicated, tactical intervention to radiological emergencies is well set.Unfortunately there are many differences between the theory and technological development. Here the Japanese did not have much to do to solve the situation. Perhaps that is the only option betonarii
Permalink Reply by Foley&son on April 5, 2011 at 2:43pm
God bless them !!
Permalink Reply by steven on April 5, 2011 at 2:53pm
Q1 yeah i in a heart beat
Q2 those who know how to do the job
Q3 the politicians think we sit around and what tv all day
Permalink Reply by Barbu-Maximilian Laurentiu on April 6, 2011 at 12:25pm
Several days studying problem in Japan. Unfortunately, literature does not give only one solution: concreting of the sarcophagus. I'm sure this will be done. The problem is the radiological protection of personnel and population intervention.
Their thoughts must be with our people there. Let's learn something from aceastra catastrophe. May God protect them!
Permalink Reply by Barbu-Maximilian Laurentiu on April 6, 2011 at 12:29pm
There can be a Chernobyl. It is an explosion Otherwise we, the other situation. In the past 25 years have further technological development. I think in two years people can go home. I'm sure of it
Permalink Reply by Firefighter Walther on April 6, 2011 at 12:53pm
1: in an instant, no doubt about it. its the job we do, it aint always pretty, but we get it done
2: the most qualified and trained
3: i doubt it, seeings as pretty much every city/town is cutting the fire department out of the budget...
Permalink Reply by Jonny Gordon on April 7, 2011 at 8:13pm
1. If lives would be saved I would do it(After saying goodbye to family and friends).

2. Those who volunteer. No one should be forced.

3. Nope

I would definitely think about what would happen if I said "Yes" but in the end I would go knowing that I'm doing something that will hopefully save many lives possibly even my family and friends.

"So Others May Live"
Permalink Reply by Nenad on April 12, 2011 at 3:06am
Japan raised the severity level of the ongoing emergency at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Tuesday from LEVEL 5 TO THE MAXIMUM 7 on an international scale, recognizing that the tsunami-caused accident matches the world's worst nuclear catastrophe in 1986 at Chernobyl.
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The nuclear regulatory agency under the industry ministry and the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, a government panel, said that between 370,000 and 630,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials have been emitted into the air from the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors of the plant.

Level 7 accidents on the International Nuclear Event Scale correspond to the release into the external environment of radioactive materials equal to more than tens of thousands of terabecquerels of radioactive iodine 131. One terabecquerel equals 1 trillion becquerels.
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Earlier, the safety commission released a preliminary calculation for the cumulative amount of radiation, saying it has exceeded the yearly limit of 1 millisievert in areas extending more than 60 km northwest of the plant and about 40 km south-southwest of the plant.

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/84888.html

Some Russian nuclear experts were saying, when Japanese claimed that the danger is lower than level 5, that maybe the disaster is higher than level 7 (Chernobyl), and they may reconsider to define new level of danger (level 8).
Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on April 12, 2011 at 4:02am
Thanks for keeping us informed, and what makes it even more valuable is having your opinion and narration. Thanks again Nenad. Stay safe, Mike
Permalink Reply by Nenad on April 12, 2011 at 7:26am
From day one of Fukushima disaster only few experts in the world had the courage to claim that this disaster is far away from that Japanese were trying to represent. Now is obvious that the awaken monster is still very alive and there is no solution to put him asleep.
We will see what the future days will bring.
Permalink Reply by Barbu-Maximilian Laurentiu on April 12, 2011 at 1:44pm
Solution exists, and will eventually be applied: cementation reactor. Japan tries to recover a bit and find financing. All manual intervention in such cases say there was no chance of saving the plant. Then what's expected?

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