For all the troubles facing the earthquake-stricken people of Japan, a nuclear meltdown may be among the least of their worries, a Canadian radiation expert says.
The danger of serious radiation leaks from the Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant have likely been overblown, despite a series of explosions and evidence that three fuel cores are actively melting down at the crippled facility.
“In the long scheme of things I don’t believe, in terms of health effects, that this is actually going to be a big part of the outcome of this earthquake,” said Greg Evans, a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto.
