Crisis without end : the medical and ecological consequences of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe / edited by Helen Caldicott.

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"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 S...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Caldicott, Helen (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York : The New Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.
Nuclear power plants > Accidents > Japan.
Nuclear power plants > Accidents.
Physical Description:243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Helen Caldicott
  • No nuclear power is the best nuclear power / Naoto Kan
  • Living in a contaminated world / Hiroaki Koide
  • Another unsurprising surprise / David Lochbaum
  • The findings of the diet independent investigating committee / Hisako Sakiyama
  • The contamination of Japan with radiactive Cesium / Steven Starr
  • What did the world learn from the Fukushima accident? / Akio Matsumura
  • Effects of ionizing radiation on living systems / David Brenner
  • The initial health effects of Fukushima / Ian Fairlie
  • The biological consequences of Chornobyl and Fukushima / Timothy Mousseau
  • What the World Health Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency, and International Commission on Radiological Protection have falsified / Alexey V. Yablokov
  • Congenital malformation in Rivne, Ukraine / Wladimir Wertelecki
  • Waht did they know and when? / Arnold Gundersen
  • Management of spent-fuel pools and radioactive waste / Robert Alvarez
  • Seventy years of radioactive risks in Japan and America / Kevin Kamps
  • Gender matters in the atomic age / Mary Olson
  • Epidemiologic studies of radiation releases from nuclear facilities / Steven Wing
  • Cancer risk from exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation / Herbert Arams
  • The rise and fall of nuclear power / David Freeman
  • The nuclear age and future generations / Helen Caldicott
  • Notes
  • About the contributors
  • About the editor.