Global Implications of Fukushima

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This research covers the Nuclear event in Japan of March 2011 and investigates the seriousness of the radiation leaked and how that affects residents in Japan, Europe and America.

The nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi is a Level 7 Major Accident on the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale.

That's the highest possible rating of any nuclear event, and Chernobyl was also a level 7 Major Accident.

Firstly let's declare some interests and loyalties: 1. The nuclear power industry wants to appear as safe and competent as possible.
2. Mainstream media wants to report the most shocking and drawn-out disaster to sell more papers and increase readership.
3. Government wants you to be uninformed and scared by anything nuclear, because it makes the citizen feel small and powerless, while making the big brother state appear to have all the answers.

The radiation leaks of Iodine-131, Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 amongst others from the multiple reactor units in Fukushima will render the immediate vicinity a dangerous radioactive zone for many years to come.

Measurement context

In order to understand whether the radiation that reaches us is harmful or safe, we need to know what are the established safe levels.

Under normal conditions when everything is working fine, the idea is that almost no radiation should be released in to the environment. The International Commission on Radiological Protection (an advisory body in the UK) allows 1 millisievert per year for public exposure.

Just to put that in perspective, average background radiation from our environment such as soil and cosmic rays totals 2.2 mSv per year in the UK, 3 mSv annually in America, and 6 mSv in Sweden while long-haul flight crew will get 9 mSv per year. All of these are safe.

So in order to discover the line between what is safe and what is dangerous, we need to look at the limits before harmful effects occur.

1,000 mSv would give us a 5% chance of suffering a fatal cancer.

5,000 mSv would kill 50% of those receiving it, within a month.

10,000 mSv would certainly kill the recipient within a few weeks.

So the good news for people in Japan is that even if 1,000 mSv of radiation were received from Fukushima, there is a 95% chance of living a perfectly healthy life.

For point of reference, workers dealing with radiation in the nuclear industry have annual limits to occupational exposure, these are...

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