What incredible bravery

[Whickerman]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...asia-pacific-13598607

"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. No longer could he be just an observer of the struggle to stabilise the Fukushima nuclear plant. 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."

incredible.

[Eve]

Very humbling.

[Twirls]

As you say, incredible and so selfless

[ChuckFickens]

The world could do with more like them, a lesson to everyone what humanity really is.

[JonnyBoy12]

Oh dear I think that they all will die from radiation poisioning; that is what happened in Chernobyl. Where are all the worker robots like in the film "I Robot"? They are supposed to do all human's dirty work for us. Del Spooner played by Will Smith hates robots, but I would love them.

Would any of you other ABers love robots to be among us? I would!

[Arksided]

I much prefer the term 'Artificial life-form' but Isaacs was a good inventive name.

OP, Well done to them, another act of bravery (by Humans) and good luck to them.

[Huderon]

er ... Arksided, it was Karel Čapek, not Asimov, who came up with the word robot in his play R.U.R (Rossum's Universal Robots). It is derived from a Czech word meaning "forced labour"

[rov1100]

Very brave.

[askyourgran]

That is an incredibly selfless act. I hope they have adequate protection. You would think there was another way to tackle the problem,

If it was in England I would volunteer the whole lot of our nasty prisoners who are serving life sentences.

[Euphemia]

An admirable act

[Teddy_boy]

Quite a sensible thing really. The Japanese are very controlled emotionally and this is not only a sensible option but a fair one.Younger workers could conceivably suffer for decades , when older workers wont have decades ahead of them anyway.It doesn't make them any less brave. But it is part of the Japanese psyche to be like this i think.

[Slapshot]

Bushido is alive and well in 21st century Japan - Domo Arigatō, yūki ni wa nenrei ga seigen sa remasu - Thank You, bravery has no age limits

[Arksided]

It is a fantastic task that they are undertaking.

Huderon, Karel Čapek invented the word Robot... I did not know that. That's why I'm a member of Answerbank ;-) thanks.