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| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Meyer, Robert E. Starkey, Carolyn Penn, Norgina W. |
| Copyright Year | 1985 |
| Abstract | T he nuclear power plant failure at Fukushima Dai-ichi in March 2011, the result of the 9.0 force earthquake and subsequent Tsunami that inundated the facility, has rekindled the worldwide debate over nuclear power and the effects of radiation on humans. Given the safety and human health concerns after the Fukushima incident, the Japanese government under former Prime Minister Noda initially committed to the decommissioning of all of Japan's nuclear power stations. The current government led by Abe appears to be less committed to that course of action. Across the globe, Germany has vowed to decommission their nuclear power plants within 10 years while adjacent France stays the course, depending on nuclear sources for approximately 75% of their electricity. Meanwhile, the debate over the actual harm to humans from the radioactive materials emitted from the Fukushima plant remains a matter of public concern. The World Health Organization has concluded in a preliminary dose assessment that some children and infants in adjacent areas may have received sufficient doses of radioiodine to put them at increased risk of thyroid cancer. Some of these individuals may have not been evacuated—or were even relocated into zones of increased hazard—because of miscalculations of radioactive dispersal directions. The missteps by the Japanese authorities in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster have served to exacerbate and prolong public anxiety over radiation exposure. However, the scientific community is coming to the conclusion that the actual impact on human health in the form of increased cancer is likely to be very small and difficult to measure. It is not surprising that the Japanese public, recalling the traumas of the atomic bombings and fearful of radioactive contamination, still prefers to avoid consuming produce grown in the |
| Starting Page | 445 |
| Ending Page | 445 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.2307/328458 |
| Volume Number | 69 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.2307/328458 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
