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Crisis Without End, The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe

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Crisis Without End

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The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe

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. This was the first comprehensive attempt to address the health and

Introduction; 1 No Nuclear Power Is the Best Nuclear Power; 2 Living in a Contaminated World; 3 Another Unsurprising Surprise; 4 The Findings of the Diet Independent Investigation Committee; 5 The Contamination of Japan with Radioactive Cesium; 6 What Did the World Learn from the Fukushima Accident?; 7 Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Living Systems; 8 The Initial Health Effects at Fukushima; 9 The Biological Consequences of Chornobyl and Fukushima; 10 What the World Health Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency,and International Commission on Radiological Protection Have Falsified11 Congenital Malformations in Rivne, Ukraine12 What Did They Know and When?; 13 Management of Spent-Fuel Pools and Radioactive Waste; 14 Seventy Years of Radioactive Risks in Japan and America; 15 Post-Fukushima Food Monitoring; 16 Gender Matters in the Atomic Age; 17 Epidemiologic Studies of Radiation Releases from Nuclear Facilities; 18 Cancer Risk from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation; 19 The Rise and Fall of Nuclear Power; 20 The Nuclear Age and Future Generations; Notes; About the Contributors; About the Editor