Crisis Without End

The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe
Herausgeber: Caldicott, Helen

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Produktbeschreibung

Expert essays provide the first comprehensive analysis of the long-term health and environmental consequences of the Fukushima nuclear accident.   On the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts were brought together at the prestigious New York Academy of Medicine by Helen Caldicott, the world's leading spokesperson for the antinuclear movement. This was the first comprehensive attempt to address the health and environmental damage done by one of the worst nuclear accidents of our times.   A compilation of these important presentations, Crisis Without End represents an unprecedented look into the profound aftereffects of Fukushima. In accessible terms, leading experts from Japan, the United States, Russia, and other nations weigh in on the current state of knowledge of radiation-related health risks in Japan, impacts on the world's oceans, the question of low-dosage radiation risks, crucial comparisons with Chernobyl, health and environmental impacts on the United States (including on food and newborns), and the unavoidable implications for the US nuclear energy industry.   Crisis Without End is both essential reading and a major corrective to the public record on Fukushima.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 146mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 401g
• ISBN-13: 9781595589606
• ISBN-10: 1595589600
• Artikelnr.: 39407941

Autorenporträt

Lannan Award winner Helen Caldicott is a co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility and was named one of the most influential women of the twentieth century by the Smithsonian Institute. She is the author of numerous books, including Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer (The New Press). She lives in Matcham, Australia.