Revised global health impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster (Video)

John Ten Hoeve, recent doctoral graduate, and Stanford University civil engineering Professor Mark Z. Jacobson, a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and theStanford Woods Institute for the Environment, published revised estimates of deaths and possible cases of cancer in Japan and the United States resulting from theFukushima nuclear disaster in the July 17, 2012, issue of the journal Energy and Environmental Science that was reviewed at the Eureka Alert web site the same day.

Radiation from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster may eventually cause anywhere from 15 to 1,300 deaths and from 24 to 2,500 cases of cancer, mostly in Japan and the United States was predicted to suffer between 0 and 12 deaths and 0 and 30 cancer morbidities according to the research based on a 3-D global atmospheric model, developed over 20 years of research, to predict the transport of radioactive material and a standard health effects model used to estimate human exposure to radioactivity.