Reactor cooling system

I saw the movie K19 The Widowmaker a long time ago but some of the images still remain in clearly in my mind. The plot is based around the nuclear submarines reactor cooling system which has failed and needs to be fixed. It shows the sacrifices sailors have to make while working on the reactor.

While the movie might be an exaggeration it does give you an idea of what the workers have to go through while working with radiation. According to Japanese TV the radiation levels were high but the minister said that water had to be dropped from the helicopter TODAY. The pilot and other workers are most likely working in conditions that no human should.

The movie: http://en.wikipedia...._The_Widowmaker

NHK channel with English translation: http://www3.nhk.or.j...ovie/index.html

Despite Japan succumbing since WWII to the ever deepening culture of self-absorption that has engulfed the other industrialized nations, the centuries old Japanese tradition of honor and sacrifice of the individual for the whole is obviously still alive in the fifty engineers that have stayed on at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission himself said yesterday that the peak levels reported there “would be lethal within a fairly short period of time.” These nuclear engineers know full well they have, in staying at Fukushima to try to contain the damage, already sacrificed their lives.