Geography 3422A/B Lecture : The Panic Over Fukushima.docx
8 Nov 2012
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International commission on radiological protection recommends evacuation of a locality wherever the excess radiation dose exceeds. March 2011 tsunami in japan fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant: 15,000 killed by wave, radiation deaths so small compared to tsunami deaths, hot spots in japan that frightened many people showed radiation at . 1 rem. Exposure to a dose of 100 rem or more will get you sick right away. If you want to know how many excess cancers there will be, multiply the population by the average dose per person and divided by 2,500 (not many) Detecting excess cancer, many will be thyroid cancer. Many who die from normal cancer will believe their illness was caused by the nuclear reactor, an over exaggeration. Natural radioactivity cosmic rays and on earth 0. 3 rem per year. Dr. garwin predicts 1,500 eventual deaths from the nuclear accident in japan says figure is small enough that an evacuation of fukushima would cause more harm than good.
