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2011-03-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by tipper 2011-03-16 00:05|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 There were men like that at Chernobyl also, warriors in every sense of the word.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-03-16 00:56|| 2011-03-16 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 What Mettle, in the Finest sense.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-03-16 01:27|| 2011-03-16 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Modern day Samurai.

Posted by tu3031 2011-03-16 02:44|| 2011-03-16 02:44|| Front Page Top

#4 These are the same people who were still coming out of remote Pacific island caves with their Arisaka rifles over 20 years after WWII had officially ended. The Bashido (the way of the warrior) is not dead. I respect these brave people.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-03-16 04:30|| 2011-03-16 04:30|| Front Page Top

#5 one of the Fukushima 50, told him that he was not afraid to die, that that was his job.

It reminds me of Heinlein's "The Green Hills of Earth". This was a known possibility the day they started their training, and yet they never turned away.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-03-16 07:50|| 2011-03-16 07:50|| Front Page Top

#6 As Bill Whittle would say, 'sheepdogs'.

Posted by Steve White 2011-03-16 08:13|| 2011-03-16 08:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, right after this story started circulating, it was quickly followed up by reports (from everybody but a single NYT reporter) that they were pulling them back because it was too dangerous in the interior. The news coming out of Fukushima is so fucked that I can't tell which end is up anymore. A combination of telephone gaming, massive translation issues, and panic is shredding the information flow in English media. Meanwhile, the fucking French are pontificating about the situation through yet *another* set of translation filters and at about ten thousand kilometers remove.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-03-16 08:37|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-03-16 08:37|| Front Page Top

#8 FWIW aggregate status updates can be found here. Their source is this page with links to reports in PDF format.

Posted by Speresing Speaking for Boskone6370 2011-03-16 17:23|| 2011-03-16 17:23|| Front Page Top

#9 A more technical discussion can be found at the NEI website.

The Fox News website has an article here. The workers staying behind are the plant engineers, the most technically savvy workers on site.

Posted by Ptah 2011-03-16 19:27|| 2011-03-16 19:27|| Front Page Top

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