While German ARD correspondent Robert Hetkämpfer has received some flak for his reports and allegations that Tepco has relied heavily on workers drawn from the ranks of the homeless and other disenfranchised groups like the burakumin to do the heavy dangerous work in the nuclear plants, there may be some truth to his charges. Below is a 1995 documentary (subtitles in English) with interviews with former and current nuclear plant workers in Japan:
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