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January 11, 2013

The Fukushima 50 Tell Their Story

Justin McCurry, The Guardian


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Dressed in a dark-blue work jacket with his company motif stamped on his breast pocket, Atsufumi Yoshizawa does not look like a man who spent the best part of a year in the thick of battle. Yet that is how he describes his time among the group of engineers, technicians, soldiers and firefighters who risked their lives to remain at the heart of Japan's worst nuclear crisis.

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TAGGED: tsunami, Nuclear accident, nuclear energy, Japan, Fukushima, Fukushima 50

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