ECON 1915 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sumo, Social Capital, Food Security
21 Mar 2017
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Nuclear power and environment: bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki in august triggered japan"s surrender, very detrimental health effects on bikini destroying health and culture, us does a lot of bomb testing then ussr and france. Where does all of this testing happen: pacific ocean, france has used former colonies for testing. Fukushima (2011: radiation in food is going to be a nationwide problem in the us particles can land and continuously expose people, 7 of german nuclear plants fail in security measures, mass media fails and not only in japan. Pacific water cooling method entire pacific is contaminated now: been hidden by the government saying it was controlled, actually, 2nd reactor could explode at any time, thyroid cancer increase. Cancer and fukushima: who to trust: difficult to assess the data, cancer develops slowly at least 10 year period of incubation.
