Author Event, Helen Caldicott
Date and Time
Oct 8, 2014 6:30 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Oct 8, 2014 6:30 pm
14th & V
Teaching for Change Bookstore at Busboys and Poets welcomes Helen Caldicott, editor of the new book, Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe introduced by Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear.
On the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts assembled at the prestigious New York Academy of Medicine. A project of the Helen Caldicott Foundation and co-sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, this gathering was a response to widespread concerns that the media and policy makers had been far too eager to move past what are clearly deep and lasting impacts for the Japanese people and for the world. This was the first comprehensive attempt to address the health and environmental damage done by one of the worst nuclear accidents of our times.Â
The only document of its kind, "Crisis Without End" represents an unprecedented look into the profound aftereffects of Fukushima. In accessible terms, leading experts from Japan, the United States, Russia, and other nations weigh in on the current state of knowledge of radiation-related health risks in Japan, impacts on the world's oceans, the question of low-dosage radiation risks, crucial comparisons with Chernobyl, health and environmental impacts on the United States (including on food and newborns), and the unavoidable implications for the U.S. nuclear energy industry.Â
"Crisis Without End" is both essential reading and a major corrective to the public record on Fukushima.
Sponsors:
Physicians for Social Responsibility
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