(New Scientist) What a relief. It looks as if the local population and most of the workers exposed to radiation from the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident in March 2011 will not have ill health as a result. That's the conclusion of the most comprehensive investigation yet into the likely health effects of the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986.
"The actions taken by the authorities to protect the public, such as evacuation and sheltering, significantly reduced the radiation exposures," says Wolfgang Weiss, chairman of the panel of 80?scientists that produced a report on the incident for the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation.