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Mon, 2011-03-21 15:09 — mdmcdonald
The Psychosocial Impacts Working Group is focused on address the psychosocial impacts of the March 11 earthquake/tsunami & nuclear accident on health.

The mission of the Psychosocial Impacts Working Group is to address the psychosocial impacts of the March 11 earthquake/tsunami & nuclear accident on health.

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Japan Nuclear Crisis: Radiation Spike Detected Outside Evacuation Zone

Thu, 2011-03-31 09:19 — Katie Rast

March 31, 2011

Japanese officials are testing the soil contaminated by radiation from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to try to determine whether spring farming can begin as alarmingly high radiation levels were detected outside the evacuation zone today.

"As a ratio, it was about two times higher" than levels at which the agency recommends evacuations," International Atomic Energy Agency Official Elena Buglova said at a news conference.

Separately, the amount of iodine found in seawater near the plant has reached a new high; 4,385 times the legal limit. Officials said earlier this week that dangerous plutonium was found in soil near the reactors.

Residents within 12 miles of the nuclear plant were evacuated after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami knocked out the reactor's cooling system March 11.

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Highly radioactive water leaks from Japanese nuclear plant

Mon, 2011-03-28 15:01 — Katie Rast

 Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:10am EDT

 TOKYO (Reuters) - Highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor at Japan's crippled nuclear complex, the plant's operator said on Monday, while environmental group Greenpeace said it had detected high levels of radiation outside an exclusion zone.

 Reflecting growing unease about efforts to control the six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi complex, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (9501.T) (TEPCO) had appealed to French companies for help, the Kyodo news agency said.

The plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, was damaged in a March 11 earthquake and tsunami that left more than 28,000 people dead or missing across northeastern Japan.

Fires, explosions and radiation leaks have repeatedly forced engineers to suspend efforts to stabilize the plant, including on Sunday when radiation levels spiked to 100,000 times above normal in water inside reactor No. 2.

Managing the Mental Health Dimensions of the Traumatic Stress

Mon, 2011-03-21 15:12 — mdmcdonald
Yuki, Lin and friends....
 
We have here in Washington DC (Bethesda actually) a world leading research center on the mental health effects of disaster and traumatic stress - the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS), headed by Dr. Bob Ursano, who is also Chair of Psychiatry Dept at Uniformed Services University. I'm also copying another expert from CSTS, Dr. Bob Gifford, (Exec Dir) on this email.  I know they are doing some innovative things in tracking mental health response following disasters, both natural and man-made.
 
 
 
here are some quick thoughts on the mental health sequelae of disaster exposure in the Japan crisis:
 

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