Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe
Expert essays provide the first comprehensive analysis of the long-term health and environmental consequences of the Fukushima nuclear accident.
 
On the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts were brought together at the prestigious New York Academy of Medicine by Helen Caldicott, the world’s leading spokesperson for the antinuclear movement. This was the first comprehensive attempt to address the health and environmental damage done by one of the worst nuclear accidents of our times.
 
A compilation of these important presentations, Crisis Without End represents an unprecedented look into the profound aftereffects of Fukushima. In accessible terms, leading experts from Japan, the United States, Russia, and other nations weigh in on the current state of knowledge of radiation-related health risks in Japan, impacts on the world’s oceans, the question of low-dosage radiation risks, crucial comparisons with Chernobyl, health and environmental impacts on the United States (including on food and newborns), and the unavoidable implications for the US nuclear energy industry.
 
Crisis Without End is both essential reading and a major corrective to the public record on Fukushima.
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Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe
Expert essays provide the first comprehensive analysis of the long-term health and environmental consequences of the Fukushima nuclear accident.
 
On the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts were brought together at the prestigious New York Academy of Medicine by Helen Caldicott, the world’s leading spokesperson for the antinuclear movement. This was the first comprehensive attempt to address the health and environmental damage done by one of the worst nuclear accidents of our times.
 
A compilation of these important presentations, Crisis Without End represents an unprecedented look into the profound aftereffects of Fukushima. In accessible terms, leading experts from Japan, the United States, Russia, and other nations weigh in on the current state of knowledge of radiation-related health risks in Japan, impacts on the world’s oceans, the question of low-dosage radiation risks, crucial comparisons with Chernobyl, health and environmental impacts on the United States (including on food and newborns), and the unavoidable implications for the US nuclear energy industry.
 
Crisis Without End is both essential reading and a major corrective to the public record on Fukushima.
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Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe

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

by Helen Caldicott (Editor)
Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe

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

by Helen Caldicott (Editor)

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Expert essays provide the first comprehensive analysis of the long-term health and environmental consequences of the Fukushima nuclear accident.
 
On the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts were brought together at the prestigious New York Academy of Medicine by Helen Caldicott, the world’s leading spokesperson for the antinuclear movement. This was the first comprehensive attempt to address the health and environmental damage done by one of the worst nuclear accidents of our times.
 
A compilation of these important presentations, Crisis Without End represents an unprecedented look into the profound aftereffects of Fukushima. In accessible terms, leading experts from Japan, the United States, Russia, and other nations weigh in on the current state of knowledge of radiation-related health risks in Japan, impacts on the world’s oceans, the question of low-dosage radiation risks, crucial comparisons with Chernobyl, health and environmental impacts on the United States (including on food and newborns), and the unavoidable implications for the US nuclear energy industry.
 
Crisis Without End is both essential reading and a major corrective to the public record on Fukushima.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781595589606
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 10/21/2014
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Lannan Award winner Helen Caldicott is a co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility and was named one of the most influential women of the twentieth century by the Smithsonian Institute. She is the author of numerous books, including Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer (The New Press). She lives in Matcham, Australia.

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Contributors include:
Herbert Abrams, Stanford University School of Medicine
David Brenner, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
Ken Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
David Freeman, former chair, Tennessee Valley Authority
Arnie Gunderson, nuclear engineer, Fairewinds Associates
Hiroaki Koide, Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute
David Lochbaum, Union of Concerned Scientists
Joe Mangano, Radiation and Public Health Project
Hisako Sakiyama, member of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission
Alexey Yablokov, Russian Academy of Sciences
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