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A June 2012 Stanford University study estimated, using a linear no-threshold model, that the radioactivity release from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant could cause 130 deaths from cancer globally (the lower bound for the estimate being 15 and the upper bound 1100) and 199 cancer cases in total (the lower bound being 24 and the upper bound ...
According to the radiation testing by the STA, Ouchi was exposed to 17 Sv of radiation, Shinohara 10 Sv, and Yokokawa received 3 Sv. [21] [24] The two technicians who received the higher doses, Ouchi and Shinohara, died several months later. Hisashi Ouchi, 35, was transported and treated at the University of Tokyo Hospital for 83 days. [25]
In July 2011, Kan said that "Japan should reduce and eventually eliminate its dependence on nuclear energy in what would be a radical shift in the country’s energy policy, saying that the Fukushima accident had demonstrated the dangers of the technology". [7] Kan said Japan should abandon plans to build 14 new reactors by 2030.
Radiation exposure of those living in proximity to the accident site was estimated at 12–25 mSV in the year following the accident. [134]: 8 Residents of Fukushima City were estimated to have received 4 mSv in the same time period. [135] In comparison, the dosage of background radiation received over a lifetime is 170 mSv. [136]
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No immediate fatalities, though up to 200+ additional cancer deaths might have ensued from the radioactive contamination of the surrounding area; 270,000 people were exposed to dangerous radiation levels. Over thirty small communities were removed from Soviet maps between 1958 and 1991. [67] (INES level 6) [32] October 1957: Windscale fire, UK ...
The next danger to avoid is radioactive fallout: a mixture of fission products (or radioisotopes) that a nuclear explosion creates by splitting atoms. Nuclear explosions loft this material high ...
The consequence was that the workers did not get paid the extra "danger allowance" that was paid to workers in these "radiation management zones". The shelters were constructed by Toshiba Corporation and the Kajima Corporation at a place some 2 kilometers west of the damaged reactors, just outside the plant compound, but near reactors 1 to 4.