[norwaypinesavage]

Normally Nature articles should be viewed with skepticism. This one seems to be OK

[Perdogg]

I am concern about the people in Japan, but weren’t we told after Chernobyl that all of the reindeer would unfit to eat and then they discovered that reindeer before Chernobyl had higher levels of cesium 137?

[brivette]

agree.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Our family is going to move to Japan and buy a house in near the Fukushima site and plan to live there year round. There is open land where we can grow our own vegetables and the area is not overpopulated. There are some really great deals on real estate, particularly near the Fukushima plant and I think it will be a good investment in our future.

[struwwelpeter]

Very difficult to "tally" accurate morbidity rates from radiation. For political reasons, statistics are skewed in either direction. As far as Chernobyl, according to one source:

"Foreign doctors and specialists who have worked on the disaster calculate that during the previous decade (1986-1996) there has been a marked increase in cancer cases. At a minimum, the count of victims is about 75 thousand people. Two American professors, John Gofman and Karl Morgan, predicted that for the next 70 years about a half-million "extra" people will die of cancer...

(SNIP)

"In April of 1991 the Soviet scientist Vladimir Chernyshenko reported that as a result of the disaster at Chernobyl, it was not 32 deaths as officially reported, but rather 7-10 thousand, and the majority of these were firemen and military service members who fought the aftermath of the catastrophe.

-- From CHERNOBYL - NEVIDIMAYA SMERT' (Chernobyl - Invisible Death) in STO VELIKIKH KATASTROF (The 100 Worst Catastrophes) printed by "Veche" Moscow I.Ionina, M. Kubeev, 1999