A group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners are volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station.
The Skilled Veterans Corps, as they call themselves, is made up of retired engineers and other professionals, all over the age of 60.
They say they should be facing the dangers of radiation, not the young.
It was while watching the television news that Yasuteru Yamada decided it was time for his generation to stand up.
The retired engineer is reporting back for duty at the age of 72, and he is organising a team of pensioners to go with him.
For weeks now Mr Yamada has been getting back in touch with old friends, sending out e-mails and even messages on Twitter.
Volunteering to take the place of younger workers at the power station is not brave, Mr Yamada says, but logical.
Mr Yamada has been getting back in touch with old friends, sending out emails and even messages on Twitter Mr Yamada has been getting back in touch with old friends via e-mail and even messages on Twitter
"I am 72 and on average I probably have 13 to 15 years left to live," he says.
"Even if I were exposed to radiation, cancer could take 20 or 30 years or longer to develop. Therefore us older ones have less chance of getting cancer."
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I just don't see anyone here who would do that!!
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Schteveo
2 comments:
Herein lies the difference. these people feel their duty, and volunteer. Obama and his minions would just constript those he felt would most serve his agenda.
They'd be too busy blaming Bush.
Did you see where that moronic PM Merkel is going to shut down Germany's nuke plants? They're going to buy oil from Russia instead. That always works well, the Russians and the Germans working together. It's perfectly safe in Europe when they are getting along.
Unless you are a Pole or a Czech or Austrian, French, Norwegian, Swedish, Latvian, Lithuanian...I could go on. but you can see where I'm going, I hope?
(why is it I hear Jiohn Dean screaming while I write that list... yeee-AAAA!)
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