A series of articles in Energy & Environmental Science (DOI: 10.1039/C2EE22019A, DOI: 10.1039/C2EE22658H and DOI: 10.1039/C2EE22659F) debated the probable worldwide impacts of the meltdown of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station following the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami off the east coast of Japan in March 2011.
Now, US scientists say that taking into account radiocaesium isotopes, the number of deaths from cancer resulting from the disaster could be in the region of 1000 rather than the 125 first anticipated.
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Accounting for long-term doses in “Worldwide health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.”
Jan Beyea, Edwin Lyman and Frank N. von Hippel
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE24183H
