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The public health risks from the Fukushima nuclear disaster will take decades to unfold and will be difficult to measure because of uncertainty about the extent of atmospheric and oceanic emissions and because of the challenges of mapping fallout patterns and bio-accumulation. The effect of uncertainty is that risk is privatized, or shifted away from Japanese industry and government, to impacted individuals in Japan and elsewhere.
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Nadesan, M.H. (2013). Introduction to Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk . In: Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137343123_1
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