Assignment:
Read the article about Fukushima in this month's Popular Science found here:
https://www.popsci.com/fukushima-five-years-later
Answer the following questions:
1) Explain why contaminated water has been such a big issue for Fukushima.
2) Did the radioactive material in the reactors break containment? Explain.
3) Based on what we learned and the information in the article, what is your chance to get cancer if you spend one year in the (still evacuated) town of Tomioka? Assume the Linear No-Threshold Model is correct. Show your work for all calculations.
Readings: Radioactivity
By Michael Opferman