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Time to look again at radiation safety

Geraldine Thomas
World UK
2016
World Nuclear News
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World Nuclear News, Geraldine Thomas - Five years after the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi, the scientific community is ready to assess what the real health consequences have been and put them into perspective with other risks in our lives, In actual fact the doses that were around Fukushima have been calculated to be around 1 milliSievert to 95% of the population - that's a tenth of a CT scan, that's all. Regarding nuclear power, she proposed the question, "Are we trying to be too safe?"

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