Soon after the Fukushima accident last month, I stated publicly
that a nuclear event of this size and catastrophic potential
could present a medical problem of very large dimensions. Events
have proven this observation to be true despite the nuclear
industry's campaign about the "minimal" health effects of so-
called low-level radiation. That billions of its dollars are at
stake if the Fukushima event causes the "nuclear renaissance" to
slow down appears to be evident from the industry's attacks on
its critics, even in the face of an unresolved and escalating
disaster at the reactor complex at Fukushima. Proponents of
nuclear power – including George Monbiot, who has had a
mysterious road-to-Damascus conversion to its supposedly benign
effects – accuse me and others who call attention to the
potential serious medical consequences of the accident of
"cherry-picking" data and overstating the health effects of
radiation from the radioactive fuel in the destroyed reactors
and their cooling pools. Yet by reassuring