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What Price the Fukushima Meltdown? Comparing Chernobyl and Fukushima
Prof. Matthew Penney & Prof. Mark Selden – The Asia-Pacific Journal, Japan Focus,
30 May 2011
On April 12, 2011 the Japanese government officially announced that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster had reached level 7, the highest on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Before Fukushima, the only level 7 case was the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, whose 25th anniversary was marked on April 26. Following the upgrade to level 7, Japan’s Prime Minister’s Office released a statement comparing Fukushima and Chernobyl, arguing that apart from children who contracted thyroid cancer from drinking contaminated milk, there have been no health effects among ordinary citizens as a result of Chernobyl radiation. Is this really the case? Hardly.
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