[ RadSafe ] Fukushima Claims Absurd

[Steven Dapra]

July 21

         Link to the Bloomberg article cited in the Forbes article:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-17/fukushima-radiation-may-cause-1-300-cancer-deaths-study-finds.html

         Link to study co-author Mark Z. Jacobson's biography on 
Stanford's website:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/

         Jacobson's degrees are in civil engineering, economics, 
environmental engineering, and atmospheric science (Ph.D.).  He has 
done a lot of work on soot, CO2, pollution and global 
warming.  Nothing in the bio about epidemiology or health physics.

         Link to the Abstract of the paper in Energy and Environmental Science:

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/ee/c2ee22019a

         The authors use LNT, and "also discuss the LNT model's 
uncertainty at low doses."

         For an article on a reply by physicist Burton Richter to the 
Ten Hoeve-Jacobson paper go to this link:

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/07/is-nuclear-power-good-for-you.html

         According to the sciencemag article, co-author John Ten 
Hoeve is a meterologist.

Steven Dapra


At 04:29 PM 7/21/2012, you wrote:
>http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/07/20/fukushima-cancer-fears-are-absurd/
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>Read the article & comments.