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he never said that you liar. now you're misrepresenting, I think that is a rule violation.No doubt those people can all move back home any day now.In other words: The results will take years to measure.Is that because you can't be bothered to read links?and yet............................you can't provide any rebuttal. what fool you are.
Fukushima will result in no casualties and no long term radiation related illnesses, because the key mistakes that were made in the initial response to the accident at Chernobyl were not repeated. Worker doses at Fukushima were controlled so that no one was exposed to dangerous radiation doses. The public was sufficiently informed about radiation releases so that no one drank milk that was contaminated by I-131.
The Breakthrough Institute - Five Surprising Public Health Facts About Fukushima
Thyroid Cancer Rates Lower in Fukushima Children Than Other Regions
Fukushima Seafood Safe to Eat
Fukushima Evacuation Zone Is Mostly Habitable
Let’s crunch the numbers. UNSCEAR estimated the average radiation doses that would have been incurred inside the 20-kilometer evacuation zone in the first year after the accident, had there been no evacuation: the highest was Tomioka township’s 51 millisieverts.8 The Committee also reckoned that 80-year lifetime doses in contaminated areas will be two to three times the first-year dose. (Radiation levels drop quickly because of radioactive decay and weathering.)9From there we can reckon the dose people would have received from fallout had they lived their whole lives in the evacuation zone: about 100-150 mSv in the most contaminated townships, substantially less elsewhere in the zone. Natural background radiation in the United States averages about 2.4 mSv per year, so 150 mSv is about equal to the lifetime background dose of a typical American.
So how unhealthy is that extra radiation? Not very. Again, radiation is a weak carcinogen: applying the LNT theory and standard risk factors from the National Academy of Sciences,10 a lifetime dose of 150 mSv confers a fatal cancer risk of about 0.9 percent — the same odds an American runs of dying in a car crash.11 Those are average risks; there are hotspots with higher radiation levels, and children would have faced somewhat higher risks, especially from thyroid doses in the first three months after the spew. Still, these numbers give a good ballpark sense of the health risks from fallout in the Fukushima evacuation zone: about the same as the risk of having a driver’s license.
Cancer Rates in USS Reagan Crewmembers Lower Than Control Group
Fukushima Death Toll Is Too Small to Measure
Hmmm, no. The point is that no one is going to die of cancer as a result of Fukushima. If you think the results can't be predicted, then that kind of makes your dire predictions unjustified, doesn't it?