{"id":3915,"date":"2011-03-15T10:32:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T14:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2011-03-17T11:21:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T15:21:56","slug":"spare-a-thought-for-the-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/03\/15\/spare-a-thought-for-the-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Spare a thought for the workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The portrait that&#8217;s emerging of working condition inside those crippled Japanese nuclear power plants is, bluntly, horrific.\u00a0 This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/16\/world\/asia\/16nuclear.html?hp\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Engineers at the plant, working at tremendous personal risk, on Tuesday  continued efforts to cool down the most heavily damaged unit, reactor  No. 2, by pumping in seawater.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, some four dozen workers have remained behind, using simple hoses to bathe volatile radioactive fuel rods in sea water, and battling full-blown blazes.<\/p>\n<p>After Chernobyl, many workers died or were permanently disabled.\u00a0 These brave souls in Japan are operating in an environment that appears increasingly toxic, not to mention literally explosive.<\/p>\n<p>One can only imagine the courage and mental fortitude required to keep working in the shadow of so much peril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The portrait that&#8217;s emerging of working condition inside those crippled Japanese nuclear power plants is, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3916,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions\/3916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}