THE CLAIM: Fukushima evacuees should not go home and risk health problems due to radiation exposure.
THE CONTRARY VIEW: Veteran journalist Jeff Wheelwright, who covers health and genetics, says the evidence linking small radiation doses to cancer is flimsy.
I live a dozen miles from the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on the central coast of California. If a tsunami were to hit the plant and send a radioactive cloud drifting over the hills, I would be ordered to leave my home. I worry I’d never be permitted to return. That’s why I think a lot about Fukushima.
More than a year has passed since a tidal wave crippled Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Now the country is considering how to repopulate the zone, 12 miles in radius, from which some 80,000 people were evacuated in March 2011. Workers in hazmat suits are reducing the radiation contamination to a ...
