Crisis without end : the medical and ecological consequences of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe : from the symposium at the New York Academy of Medicine, March 11-12, 2013

On the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts assembled at the prestigious New York Academy of Medicine. A project of the Helen Caldicott Foundation and co-sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, this gathering was a response to widespread concerns that the media and policy makers had been far too eager to move past what are clearly deep and lasting impacts for the Japanese people and for the world. This was the first comprehensive attempt to address the health and environmental damage done by one of the worst nuclear accidents of our times.The only document of its kind, __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 U.S. nuclear energy industry.__Crisis Without End__ is both essential reading and a major corrective to the public record on Fukushima. Introduction -- Helen Caldicott No nuclear power is the best nuclear power -- Naoto Kan Living in a contaminated world -- Hiroaki Koide Another unsurprising surprise -- David Lochbaum The findings of the Diet Independent Investigation Committee -- Hisako Sakiyama The contamination of Japan with radioactive cesium -- Steven Starr What did the world learn from the Fukushima accident? -- Akio Matsumura Effects of ionizing radiation on living systems -- David Brenner The initial health effects at Fukushima -- Ian Fairlie The biological consequences of Chernobyl and Fukushima -- Timothy Mousseau What the World Health Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency, and International Commission on Radiological Protection have falsified -- Alexey V. Yablokov Congenital malformations in Rivne, Ukraine -- Wladimir Wertelecki What did they know and when? -- Arnold Gundersen Management of spent-fuel pools and radioactive waste -- Robert Alvarez Seventy years of radioactive risks in Japan and America -- Kevin Kamps Post-Fukushima food monitoring -- Cindy Folkers Gender matters in the atomic age -- Mary Olson Epidemiologic studies of radiation releases from nuclear facilities -- Steven Wing Cancer risks from exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation -- Herbert Abrams The rise and fall of nuclear power -- David Freeman The nuclear age and future generations -- Helen Caldicott. On the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts assembled at the prestigious New York Academy of Medicine. A project of the Helen Caldicott Foundation and co-sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, this gathering was a response to widespread concerns that the media and policy makers had been far too eager to move past what are clearly deep and lasting impacts for the Japanese people and for the world. This was the first comprehensive attempt to address the health and environmental damage done by one of the worst nuclear accidents of our times. The only document of its kind, 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 U.S. nuclear energy industry. Crisis Without End is both essential reading and a major corrective to the public record on Fukushima. 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. "On the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts assembled at the prestigious New York Academy of Medicine. A project of the Helen Caldicott Foundation and co-sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, this gathering was a response to widespread concerns that the media and policy makers had been far too eager to move past what are clearly deep and lasting impacts for the Japanese people and for the world"--Amazon.com.