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Fear and numbers in Fukushima
Author(s) -
Spiegelhalter David
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2011.00501.x
Subject(s) - fukushima nuclear accident , political science , history , nuclear physics , physics , nuclear power plant
So how dangerous was the radiation from the Japanese disaster? David Spiegelhalter tells how scientists and officials gave changing advice, how the public were confused, and how the media struggled to get a grip on it all.