 Quote by luben
If Fukushima incident is not very threatening, would it be safe to live in tokyo (several hundreds km away)? I wonder if there will be some long term effects just like the nuclear remains in chernobyl...
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Afaik, there are several well settled areas on earth where background radiation is comfortably above that needed to give a 20 mSiv/yr dose. Deleterious effects have not been documented in those cases, either short or long term.
So there is a real measure of hype in the current Fukushima coverage.
My guess is that the risks of living in Tokyo, where a large earthquake is reasonably probable within the next three decades, is not materially altered by the contamination from Fukushima.