Two accounts take contrasting lessons from nuclear accidents, finds Mark Peplow.
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Peplow, M. Nuclear energy: Meltdowns, redux. Nature 506, 292–293 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/506292a
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Suppose you were a Japanese family living in Tokyo and suppose that there had been no evacuation around the Fukushima meltdowns. What would happen to the cancer risk for your children if you went to live in the area? We can reasonably assume you'd get rather less of a radiation hit than was received by the Hiroshima/Nagasaki survivors ... yes? Now consider the cancer risk to your children if you took them to live in the US (or my country Australia). Which risk would be higher? If you moved to Australia your children would soon adopt Australian ways and their cancer risk would rise about 50 percent (easily verifiable on globocan.iarc.fr) but if you got a bomb survivor dose of radiation (average of 200 mSv in a short period) your cancer risk would rise by about 11 percent. http://www.rerf.jp/radefx/l...
The bottom line? The Japanese Government doesn't forcibly prevent its citizens moving to the US, so why shatter their lives with this evacuation?