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The underestimated psychosocial costs of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe

Cost of Nuclear Disaster, NYTAUG. 13, 2014 EDWIN LYMAN Senior Scientist Union of Concerned Scientists Washington, Aug. 7, 2014 “……The 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan led to the evacuation of some 150,000 people, and most of them may never return to their homes. This disruption of so many lives is undoubtedly having profound psychosocial effects.

Yet in the United States, when evaluating new nuclear reactor safety requirements, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission considers only the direct monetary costs of such disasters — like the value of condemned land and the cost of decontamination — and ignores the social costs of a large population of permanently displaced people.

The nuclear commission should enhance public safety by broadening its definition of the cost of such human tragedies.  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/opinion/cost-of-nuclear-disaster.html?_r=0

August 14, 2014 - Posted by | general

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