Radiation hazards in children – Lessons from Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima

Title: Radiation hazards in children – Lessons from Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima

Author: Fushiki, Shinji

Reference: Brain and Development, 35 (3), p.220-227, Mar 2013

doi: 10.1016/j.braindev.2012.09.004

Keywords: Ionizing radiation; Health effects; Children; Developing brain; Nuclear power plant accident

Abstract: On March 11, 2011, Japan was hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake followed by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster. Firstly, this review focuses on what happened after the accidents at the Three Mile Island nuclear power station in 1979 and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, in terms of the effects of these incidents on health. The most critical issue when considering the effects of radiation on the health of children was the increase of thyroid cancer, as clearly demonstrated among people who were children or adolescence at the time of the Chernobyl accident….

URL:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0387760412002264

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