What would YOU do?
 

Those who remained behind continued a last-ditch effort to cool reactors with seawater to prevent a wider environmental and public health catastrophe.

High levels of radiation led the crew to abandon the plant control room Tuesday night, Kyodo News reported, citing plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Company.

"Their situation is not great," said David Brenner, director of the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University. "It's pretty clear that they will be getting very high doses of radiation. There's certainly the potential for lethal doses of radiation. They know it, and I think you have to call these people heroes."

:Oh crap

phew, hmm, in all honesty, i feel like i don't have enough information to conclude whether or not those people are heroes at this point. i tend to think they are though.

The high dose comes very quickly and initially they won't have set out to give themselves 3 weeks to live. Once you are overexposed may as well stay and do what you can.

Modern day Kamikaze's, pretty brave of them. I honestly don't know what I would do.


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May their spirits live forever.

Those who stayed have accepted it as a death sentence. They won't survive it.

I think those are true heros... would I do the same, I hope I would but I just cannot say for certain

pretty brave of them, fucked up situation though ... fucked if you do, fucked if you dont

i just hope most of them were there with an understanding of wtf was going on and were not there because they were mislead by government officials/higher ups.

Heroes for sure.