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March 25, 2011 |
In the wake of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the powerful tsunami that followed, the stricken nuclear reactors at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant released not one but two powerful and invisible forces: radiation and fear of radiation.
Both can spread quickly, and with insidious stealth. They permeate walls, make no distinction between rich and poor, and are particularly hard on children.
And elevated levels of either can have long-term health consequences.
To be sure, to those living close to the Fukushima power plant or who have been told to avoid contaminated water, milk and spinach, the health threat posed by radiation is very real. And the ultimate scope of the accident is still unclear.
But as events continued to unfold last week, psychologists and engineers alike noted that fear of radiation had spread farther and more virulently than has radiation itself. And it may be just as dangerous. [ LA TIMES ]
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