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Beyea, J., and M. Bricker. “Risks of Exposure to Low-Level Radiation.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 68 (2012).

HERBERT ABRAMS is emeritus professor of radiology at Stanford University and a member of the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR) Committee of the National Academy of Sciences.

ROBERT ALVAREZ is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies.

DAVID BRENNER is the Higgins Professor of Radiation Biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.

IAN FAIRLIE is a radiation biologist and an independent consultant on radiation risks. He is also the former scientific secretary to the British government’s Committee Examining Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters.

CINDY FOLKERS is a specialist in radiation and health for Beyond Nuclear.

DAVID FREEMAN is the former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the former general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the New York Power Authority, and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.

ARNOLD GUNDERSEN is a nuclear engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education.

KEVIN KAMPS is a specialist in high-level waste management and transportation at Beyond Nuclear.

NAOTO KAN is the former prime minister of Japan.

HIROAKI KOIDE is a specialist in radiation safety and control at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute.

DAVID LOCHBAUM is the director of the Union of Concerned Scientists Nuclear Safety Project.

AKIO MATSUMURA is the founder of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders.

TIMOTHY MOUSSEAU is a professor of biological sciences at the University of South Carolina.

MARY OLSON is the director of the Southeast Office of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service.

HISAKO SAKIYAMA is a former senior researcher at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences. She was also a member of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission.

STEVEN STARR is a senior scientist at Physicians for Social Responsibility and the director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri.

WLADIMIR WERTELECKI is the president of the board of the OMNI-Net Ukraine child development programs and an adjunct professor of biomedical anthropology at the State University of New York.

STEVEN WING is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina.

ALEXEY V. YABLOKOV is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The world’s leading spokesperson for the antinuclear movement, DR. HELEN CALDICOTT is the co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and the 2003 winner of the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom. Both the Smithsonian Institute and Ladies’ Home Journal have named her one of the Most Influential Women of the Twentieth Century. In 2001, she founded the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, which later became Beyond Nuclear, in Washington, D.C. The author of The New Nuclear Danger, War in Heaven (with Craig Eisendrath), Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer , and Loving This Planet (all published by The New Press), she is currently president of the Helen Caldicott Foundation/NuclearFreePlanet.org.

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Compilation © 2014 by Helen Caldicott. Adapted from the symposium “The Medical and Ecological Consequences of Fukushima,” held at the New York Academy of Medicine, March 11–12, 2013.

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“Japan Sat on U.S. Radiation Maps Showing Immediate Fallout from Nuke Crisis,” Japan Times , June 18, 2012.

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A.V. Yablokov, V.B. Nesterenko, A.V. Nesterenko, and J.D. Sherman-Nevinger, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment (New York: Wiley, 2010).

Fukushima Health Management, Proceedings of the 15th Prefectural Oversight Committee Meeting for Fukushima Health Management Survey , Fukushima, Japan, 2014.

A.P. Møller and T.A. Mousseau, “The Effects of Low-Dose Radiation: Soviet Science, the Nuclear Industry—and Independence?,” Significance 10, no. 1 (2013): 14–19.

For example, the Norwegian Institute for Air Research estimates that the destroyed nuclear reactors at Fukushima released 2.5 times more radioactive xenon-133 gas than the destruction of the nuclear reactor at Chornobyl. Xenon-133 has a half-life of about five days, so in two months most of it had disappeared from the environment. But the winds from Fukushima carried a giant cloud of xenon-133 directly over the Tokyo metropolitan area, where (according to the Japan Chemical Analysis Center) it averaged 1,300 atomic disintegrations per second in every cubic meter of air from March 14 through March 22, 2011. The Japanese government chose not to warn people in Tokyo to take any precautions.