Shunned Japanese Fukushima Plant Workers Face Emotional Toll

submitted by Samuel Bendett

ABC News - by DR. TIFFANY CHAO and DR. SHARI BARNETT - August 15, 2012

The March 2011 earthquake that triggered plant explosions and a meltdown in a Japanese nuclear power plant caused a chain reaction in the psyche of the workers at this plant, making them more vulnerable to emotional stress from perceived discrimination shortly after the disaster, according to a new study.

Researchers behind the study, published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, administered a questionnaire to two sets of power plant workers in May and June of 2011. One group was from the Daiichi plant, where the major meltdown occurred, while the other was from the Daini nuclear power plant, which exhibited some damage but remained mostly intact.

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JAMA - Psychological Distress in Workers at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1346166