[wonderfool]

Similar to how retired/elderly engineers in Japan volunteered to perform on-site remediation work during the Fukushima nuclear crisis?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13598607

[cromka]

Indeed similarly, although they explain in the article that it is unlikely that the retirees would develop cancer by they time they died of natural causes, so the level of sacrifice is different.