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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Physical, Mental Toll of Japanese Nuke Plant Meltdown Assessed



Examiner.com
Physical, Mental Toll of Japanese Nuke Plant Meltdown Assessed
U.S. News & World Report
TUESDAY, Aug. 14 (HealthDay News) -- More than one-third of residents of a town near the Japanese nuclear reactor that underwent meltdown last year showed evidence of exposure to radioactive cesium six months after the disaster, new research shows.

Shunned Japanese Fukushima Plant Workers Face Emotional Toll

ABC News (blog) -
Shunned Japanese Fukushima Plant Workers Face Emotional Toll. Email 1 Smaller Font Text Larger Text | Print. By DR. TIFFANY CHAO and DR. SHARI BARNETT: The March 2011 earthquake that triggered plant explosions and a meltdown in a Japanese ...

Radioactivity tests are reassuring

Philadelphia Inquirer -
Japanese researchers have found very low amounts of radioactivity in the bodies of about 10000 people who lived near the Fukushima Daiichi power plant when it melted down. The first published study that measured the radiation within a large number of ...

Recommended: After Fukushima, residents spared of nuclear contamination

NBCNews.com (blog) -
By Christopher Wanjek, LiveScience. Residents near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan may have been spared the brunt of the deadly radiation that spewed from the failed reactors in March 2011, according to a study appearing tomorrow ...

Low radiation found in Japanese near Fukushima nuke plant

USA TODAY -
The first study of Japanese living near the Fukushima nuclear plant damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami has found low levels of radiation exposure, The Washington Post reports. Between September and this past March, researchers ...
 

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