CRISIS WITHOUT END

Crisis Without End, by Helen Caldicott

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CRISIS WITHOUT END The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe Helen Caldicott (ed.) New York: The New Press, October 2014				Rating: 4.5 Hign
ISBN-13 978-1-59558-960-6
ISBN-10 1-59558-960-0	241pp.	HC/BWI	$26.95

	Introduction Helen Caldicott	1
1.	No Nuclear Power Is the Best Nuclear Power Naoto Kan	17
2.	Living in a Contaminated World Hiroaki Koide	21
3.	Another Unsurprising Surprise David Lochbaum	27
4.	The Findings of the Diet Independent Investigation Committee Hisako Sakiyama	35
5.	The Contamination of Japan with Radioactive Cesium Steven Starr	43
6.	What Did the World Learn from the Fukushima Accident? Akio Matsumura	73
7.	Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Living Systems David Brenner	81
8.	The Initial Health Effects at Fukushima Ian Fairlie	87
9.	The Biological Consequences of Chornobyl and Fukushima Timothy Mousseau	93
10.	What the World Health Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency, and International Commission on Radiological Protection Have Falsified Alexey V. Yablokov	101
11.	Congenital Malformations in Rivne, Ukraine Wladimir Wertelecki	119
12.	What Did they Know and When? Arnold Gundersen	139
13.	Management of Spent Fuel Pools and Radioactive Waste Robert Alvarez	147
14.	Seventy Years of Radioactive Risks in America and Japan Kevin Kamps	157
15.	Post-Fukushima Food Monitoring Cindy Folkers	177
16.	Gender Matters in the Atomic Age Mary Olson	187
17.	Epidemiological Studies of Radiation Releases from Nuclear Facilities Steven Wing	193
18.	Cancer Risk from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation Herbert Abrams	205
19.	The Rise and Fall of Nuclear Power David Freeman	213
20.	The Nuclear Age and Future Generations Helen Caldicott	221
	Notes	229
	About Contributors	239
	About the Editor	243

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