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Health Physicist Explains the Differences in Health Impacts From Fukushima Versus Chernobyl
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2011Apr 18
Barbara Hamrick, radiation safety officer and certified health physicist at the University of California's Irvine Medical Center, discusses that the long-term health effects from the Fukushima accident in Japan will likely be far less severe than the ones suffered at the Chernobyl accident due to differences in reactor designs, radiation expulsion and government response. She also explains what it means to be a level 7 on the IAEA's International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. For more information on the differences between Chernobyl and Fukushima, see NEI's fact sheet: http://bitly.com/eyvecT.

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