How are they? "The fifty Fukushima," as the British press has christened the following statements by the Japanese government? Seventies, as assumed in the Guardian, or even one hundred and seventy, as finally said TEPCO, the operator of the Japanese nuclear plant where more accidents since the earthquake of Friday, March 11 raised fears of a major disaster .
What strikes first is the loneliness of these men. It was only Wednesday that an army helicopter was mobilized, unsuccessfully, to try to cool the reactors, and it has been proposed to use water cannons by the police. Most of the eight hundred employees of the plant was evacuated Tuesday when the radioactivity has increased the country's fate depends heavily on a small number of employees and subcontractors, the Prime Minister has accused the company while paying tribute to these individuals.
The soldiers are becoming more numerous on the site, according to The New York Times. What is their role? The cooling systems of reactors have been destroyed by the tsunami, it is to pump sea water, transport it in tankers and pumped into the reactors. It must also manually operate the valves to reduce pressure.
Therefore impossible for staff to remain confined in buildings. They probably suits and oxygen tanks to avoid inhalation and contact with radioactive dust. "But, as at least one of the reactors has the stomach with air and spews radioactive particles, they are not immune to radiation," said Chairman of the Board independent research on radioactivity Roland Desbordes, quoted by Le Parisien .
Given the risk of radiation, "the operator is likely to turn teams at the heart of the Central and ordered them to move as quickly as possible to each intervention," said Julien Collet, director of emergencies at the 'Nuclear Safety Agency (ASN). Even the central control room Fukushima-1 was not protection enough Tuesday and engineers had to move away.
Two brief evacuation of the site took place Tuesday and Wednesday as speeds up to 400 mSv / h were reported. "An operator one hour remaining at the site concerned would suffer longer than the maximum allowed now," said Le Monde on Wednesday. "The doses may even question the fact of keeping workers on site," said Agnes Buzyn, president of the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety French (SNRIs).
We are worried about their ability to take because the radioactivity has reached toxic levels. "Commission for Research and Independent Information on Radioactivity (CRIIRAD) denounced" potentially lethal doses. "But no information was available about the magnitude of radiation suffered by individuals.
The IAEA has reported checks on one hundred and fifty people living near the plant, which gave rise to twenty-three decontamination, without specifying if the site's employees were involved. Even counting casualties among employees is difficult. According to TEPCO, quoted by The New York Times, five employees or subcontractors have died, two are missing and twenty-two were wounded, but the news in English in the company identify much less: a crane operator killed in the earthquake and four wounded, including two sub-contractors in the explosion of reactor number 1 Fukushima-1, and six wounded, including two sub-contractors in the explosion of reactor number 3, Monday.
"'s uncle [my wife] works at the plant. He sent us an email that was more like a goodbye, "testified on France Info a French living in Japan. Ané Claire 
What strikes first is the loneliness of these men. It was only Wednesday that an army helicopter was mobilized, unsuccessfully, to try to cool the reactors, and it has been proposed to use water cannons by the police. Most of the eight hundred employees of the plant was evacuated Tuesday when the radioactivity has increased the country's fate depends heavily on a small number of employees and subcontractors, the Prime Minister has accused the company while paying tribute to these individuals.
The soldiers are becoming more numerous on the site, according to The New York Times. What is their role? The cooling systems of reactors have been destroyed by the tsunami, it is to pump sea water, transport it in tankers and pumped into the reactors. It must also manually operate the valves to reduce pressure.
Therefore impossible for staff to remain confined in buildings. They probably suits and oxygen tanks to avoid inhalation and contact with radioactive dust. "But, as at least one of the reactors has the stomach with air and spews radioactive particles, they are not immune to radiation," said Chairman of the Board independent research on radioactivity Roland Desbordes, quoted by Le Parisien .
Given the risk of radiation, "the operator is likely to turn teams at the heart of the Central and ordered them to move as quickly as possible to each intervention," said Julien Collet, director of emergencies at the 'Nuclear Safety Agency (ASN). Even the central control room Fukushima-1 was not protection enough Tuesday and engineers had to move away.
Two brief evacuation of the site took place Tuesday and Wednesday as speeds up to 400 mSv / h were reported. "An operator one hour remaining at the site concerned would suffer longer than the maximum allowed now," said Le Monde on Wednesday. "The doses may even question the fact of keeping workers on site," said Agnes Buzyn, president of the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety French (SNRIs).
We are worried about their ability to take because the radioactivity has reached toxic levels. "Commission for Research and Independent Information on Radioactivity (CRIIRAD) denounced" potentially lethal doses. "But no information was available about the magnitude of radiation suffered by individuals.
The IAEA has reported checks on one hundred and fifty people living near the plant, which gave rise to twenty-three decontamination, without specifying if the site's employees were involved. Even counting casualties among employees is difficult. According to TEPCO, quoted by The New York Times, five employees or subcontractors have died, two are missing and twenty-two were wounded, but the news in English in the company identify much less: a crane operator killed in the earthquake and four wounded, including two sub-contractors in the explosion of reactor number 1 Fukushima-1, and six wounded, including two sub-contractors in the explosion of reactor number 3, Monday.
"'s uncle [my wife] works at the plant. He sent us an email that was more like a goodbye, "testified on France Info a French living in Japan. Ané Claire
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