While local residents and staff fled the widening danger zone surrounding the crippled reactors, the anonymous Fukushima [TEPCO facility] worker uttered words that could brand him one of the first martyrs of Japan's monumental triple-catastrophe. He reportedly told an official that he “was not afraid to die, that that was his job.”...The 50 or so workers who remained at the site, according to various news reports, struggled to hold the line between their country and absolute catastrophe...[Quoting the New York Times:] "The workers are being asked to make escalating — and perhaps existential — sacrifices...Japan’s Health Ministry said Tuesday it was raising the legal limit on the amount of radiation to which each worker could be exposed...[to] five times the maximum exposure permitted for American nuclear plant workers..." [refers to General Electric]