Crisis without end : the medical and ecological consequences of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe
Title:
Crisis without end : the medical and ecological consequences of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe
Author:
Caldicott, Helen, editor.
Publication Information:
New York : The New Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Summary:
"On the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts assembled at the prestigious New York Academy of Medicine. A project of the Helen Caldicott Foundation and co-sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, this gathering was a response to widespread concerns that the media and policy makers had been far too eager to move past what are clearly deep and lasting impacts for the Japanese people and for the world"--Amazon.com.
General Note:
"From the symposium at the New York Academy of Medicine, March 11-12, 2013."
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction / No nuclear power is the best nuclear power / Living in a contaminated world / Another unsurprising surprise / Findings of the Diet Independent Investigation Committee / Contamination of Japan with radioactive cesium / What did the world learn from the Fukushima accident? / Effects of ionizing radiation on living systems / Initial health effects at Fukushima / Biological consequences of Chernobyl and Fukushima / What the World Health Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency, and International Commission on Radiological Protection have falsified / Congenital malformations in Rivne, Ukraine / What did they know and when? / Management of spent-fuel pools and radioactive waste / Seventy years of radioactive risks in Japan and America / Post-Fukushima food monitoring / Gender matters in the atomic age / Epidemiologic studies of radiation releases from nuclear facilities / Cancer risks from exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation / Rise and fall of nuclear power / Nuclear age and future generations
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ISBN:
9781595589606
Format :
Book
