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Health effects of 3/11 (Ian Fairlie)

Summing the Health Effects of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

http://www.ianfairlie.org/news/summing-the-health-effects-of-the-fukushima-nuclear-disaster/

 

August 16, 2015

New emerging evidence from Fukushima shows that nuclear disasters and their aftermaths can kill thousands of people due to necessary evacuations. Between 2011 and  2014, about 2,000 Japanese people, including many old people, died from ill-heath and suicides connected with the evacuations.

Some nuclear advocates, including government officials, have said these deaths are the fault of the evacuations, as if they were unconnected with the nuclear disaster. This is incorrect: the evacuations were necessary to avoid large radiation exposures from the radioactive fallout due to the plumes from the Fukushima explosions and meltdowns.

In future, such deaths  should be included in assessments of the fatalities from nuclear disasters.

A fuller report on the health effects from Fukushima is available here. Summing up the Effects of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster 10

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