A Nuclear Workers’ Compensation Disaster

As Japanese nuclear energy workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant are being ordered to abandon efforts to contain the radiation emission, now at 1,000 times the safe limit, serious concern exists whether the US workers’ compensation could handle a similar disaster, if not the consequences of the present event. The gut reaction in the US has been to lean on the Federal Government to bailout the ailing patch work of ailing state compensation systems.