ruveyn wrote:
The latest story is that radiation suppression crews are now drinking ceremonial saki prior to taking off to drop water on the bone dry storage pools. Their mates on the ground are sending them off waving their goggles and respirators over their heads and yelling "Banzai!"
ruveyn
Sounds like either an urban legand or some black humor. I know that people sometimes make the most sickminded horrible jokes when under stress or about stressful topics. Some people use black humor as an emotional safety valve. I think it may be people outside the site who feel under stress and then they make up or pass on tales about nuclear workers who imagine themselfs to be modern day samurais going into battle facing a noble death.
If think that if you were on the ground there and you were issued with a dust mask then I hope you would have the sense not to doff your mask in an uncontrolled way in a contaminated area. I am sure that the Japanese authority and utility company have tried to select responsible people who will keep focused and not treat the work as a gaint joke.
Also if you were to "arse about" with your protective clothing then a contamination of yourself could well result in you being dragged away to hospital or a medical facility for cleaning instead of being able to get on your your job.
The problem is that if you remove protective clothing in the wrong way then you contaminate yourself. I would be interested to know if aspies would be better at such work than NTs, some aspies can keep concentrated on a task and blank out their emotions.
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