Read this viral email going around Japan about the brave workers that are sacrificing their health so others may live. With a deep bow to them

Please send these people your prayers.

Right now there are people working diligently at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant risking their lives to save the this country, this Japan, the citizens, you and your families.

Please Pray! So the work is successful! Please!

The members of the Japanese Specialized Scientific Defense Team are all volunteers. They are all 55 years and older, They all stated that they are done raising their children and have no regrets and thus have volunteered to the group. There are 50 volunteers like this.

There's an article from an information announcement company,

Eastern Electric corporation put out a call for help to all of the electric companies and related companies in Japan. They were looking for veterans in the Nuclear plant related field for volunteers to be a part of a "Decided to die" group (there is no direct translation for this term in English) to work on the internal structures of the nuclear plant.

A man from China Electric, who has been in working on Nuclear power plants for the past 40 years quoted " This work should be done by veterans like me. I am only a year away from retirement, my children are all grown up." And thus he volunteered.

The family shared their feelings with calm, and say that they could not say anything to their father and their husband's firm determination and decision.

This man's daughter says she saw a peaceful face on her father that day that she had never seen prior.

20 volunteers the next day as if going to go to work as usual said "I'm leaving!" and walked out of their front door.

While working at the nuclear power plant there is radiation exposure. The country has a standard rule for allowing no more than 100 millisieverts to their workers. (The International standard is 20 and in Japan it's traditionally 50. The Fukushima plants have been recorded to be radiating about 300 to 400 millisieverts in the past several weeks.) Recently the limit went up to 250mSv. That's because the workers requested that.

If the limit was 100mSv the time allowed to do the procedures would be over in a few minutes and no work can be completed. That's why they turned in a formal request to raise the acceptable radiation exposure level on the books to 250mSv. They made a resolve to face and accept the radiation exposure received in the process.

Because of this, yesterday the reactors were entering their critical temperature for a potential disaster and at the nick of time the critical point was averted.

If critical temperature was reached, we wouldn't be here spending this time, we wouldn't have had this time to spend.

We wouldn't have had this time with our family, our loved ones and our friends. The survival rate for all life within the 300km (186mile) radius of the Nuclear Plant was close to zero. This time we have now, alive, is because of these people's efforts.

The business management executives because of the worry for their own well being, have been limiting and slowly doling out information and have not come out from far away Tokyo.

Please, Everyone pray for them!