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Uncertainty about the scale of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the manner of fallout deposition, and the dose effects from exposure contribute to the privatization of risks as externalities are experienced by impacted citizens as personal tragedies. Ironically, nuclear has been the crux of security, despite its deleterious effects producing the most profound insecurity within our most basic life processes, within the human genome itself.
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Nadesan, M.H. (2013). Conclusion. In: Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137343123_5
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