They say that the burden of addressing the nuclear crisis should rest on the shoulders of the older workers, not the younger ones.
Yasutera Yamada, 72, a retired engineer, has called upon fellow retired professionals to step up to the plate and help tackle Japan’s nuclear crisis.
“I am 72, and on average, I probably have 13 to 15 years left to live,” he said in an interview with BBC. “Even if I were exposed to radiation, cancer could take 20 or 30 years, or longer, to develop. Therefore we older folks have less of a chance of getting cancer.”
Yamada has been getting in touch with his old contacts, sending out e-mails and Twitter messages to recruit them, BBC reported.
The response has been good, he said.
“Now, I have almost 200 people who want to join the work at the site. If you want a crane operator, ok, I can offer you that. … If you want to have a singer at the site, for entertainment … and we need a cook at the site, we need to eat. Ok, I have two already,” said Yamada.
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