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March 15, 2012

How Fukushima Led to Radiation Panic

Breakthrough Inst, Energy Collective


Energy Collective

One year after Fukushima, independent scientists working for the UN say bluntly that irrational fears of radiation poisoning will cause far more harm than the radiation itself. Not a single individual from the Japanese public received a dangerous dose, according to the early and informal analyses by the scientists. (Conspiracy theories cannot survive against the constant independent radiation measurements Read Full Article ››


TAGGED: nuclear energy, linear no-threshhold, no safe dose, radiation panic, Breakthrough Institute, Japan, Fukushima, radiation

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