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Title: Learning from Fukushima : nuclear power in East Asia /

Peter Van Ness, Mel Gurtov, editors.

ISBN: 9781760461393 (paperback) 9781760461409 (ebook)

Subjects: Nuclear power plants--East Asia.

Nuclear power plants--Risk assessment--East Asia.

Nuclear power plants--Health aspects--East Asia.

Nuclear power plants--East Asia--Evaluation.

Other Creators/Contributors:

Van Ness, Peter, editor.

Gurtov, Melvin, editor.

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Cover design and layout by ANU Press.

Cover image: ‘Fukushima apple tree’ by Kristian Laemmle-Ruff. Near Fukushima City, 60 km from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, February 2014.

The number in the artwork is the radioactivity level measured in the orchard—2.166 microsieverts per hour, around 20 times normal background radiation.

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