Since we’re seeing this, the photographer evidently made it through:
My focus is on the radiological aspects of this disaster because it’s what I know. It is the worst nuclear accident in history not to have taken a life (as yet).
Meaning it has yet to take a life.
Look at that video. Somewhere in there, unseen, people could have been dying.
Okay, now back to demonizing nuclear power.
I have not seen that video. It puts things into very stark perspective.
I just keep wondering when, or if, the cameraman started to entertain doubts about this decision…
That is exactly what one of my co-workers thought. Of course, by the time she mentioned that, it certainly looked as if there would not have been anywhere else to go. I’m thinking the people in the multi-story structure across the way might have been really worried.
I understood the warning was slightly less than thirty minutes. No telling if cameraman arrived at this locale “just in time.”
Since we’re seeing this, the photographer evidently made it through:
On this one, probably. Over the new few months/years memory chips from recovered cameras/cell phones will keep showing up bearing pictures/videos where the photographer didn’t survive. I saw one of those from the Indonesian 2004 Tsunami – that was the one where you saw the wave waaaay far away from the coast … and it kept coming closer.
Those chips are pretty durable.
How troubling it would be to see something and suddenly realize the filmer isn’t going to make.
Didn’t mind “Cloverfield” using it as a conceit, though. I’m pretty merciless to imaginary people myself. The “shaky cams” are another matter.
they lost 5 nuclear workers or so in reactor explosions though. Power generation is hazardous.
Do you mean at Fukushima? I believe the hydrogen explosions killed and injured some.
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