Almost 500 millisieverts of radiation for some in corridor NW of Fukushima meltdowns — Around 50/50 chance of cancer, says nuclear engineer

Published: September 6th, 2011 at 5:11 pm ET
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Arnold Gundersen with a Fukushima update, Helen Caldicott MD podcast, September 2, 2011:

At 23:25 in (Transcript Summary)

  • There’s a denial of the severity of the accident by the business community and government in Tokyo… they are ignoring and denying severity of problem…
  • Some towns in the NW corridor received 50 rem of radiation, people in those towns received 50 rems.. that means there is almost a 50/50 chance of cancer… that information just came out now 6 months after accident…

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Published: September 6th, 2011 at 5:11 pm ET
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