Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Study Calculates Health Impacts Of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Yale Environment 360: Roughly 130 people are likely to die from radiation exposure and another 180 die from cancer as a result of the March 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear power station in Japan, according to a new study by Stanford University researchers. The researchers presented a wide range of possible fatalities from the disaster, estimating that 15 to 1,300 people could die from direct radiation exposure. The scientists also said that an estimated 24 to 2,500 people could contract cancer from exposure...

URL: http://e360.yale.edu/digest/study_calculates_health_impacts__of_japans_fukushima_nuclear_disaster/3551/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29

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