또한 체르노빌 사고의 방사능 오염을 연구한 마틴 톤델(Martin Tondel)의 연구를 인용하면서 체르노빌 사고 10년 후에 스웨덴은 1제곱미터당 10만 베크렐 정도로 오염이 된 지역에서 암 발병률이 10% 증가하였는데, 후쿠시마 원전에서 79킬로미터 떨어진 지역에서 20만-90만 베크렐을 기록하고 있어, 향후 이들 지역은 10년간 발병률이 22%에서 90% 정도 늘어날 가능성이 있음을 지적하고 있다.
Since the Fukushima accident we have seen a stream of experts on radiation telling us not to worry, that the doses are too low, that the accident is nothing like Chernobyl and so forth. They appear on television and we read their articles in the newspapers and online. Fortunately the majority of the public don't believe them.(중략)
There is a gap between them and us. Between the phoney scientists and the public who don't believe what they say. Between those who are employed and paid to protect us from radioactive pollution and those who die from its consequences. Between those who talk down what is arguably the greatest public health scandal in human history, and the facts that they ignore. Mind the Gap indeed.
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