Nuclear incident and accident severity scale in Japan.

Nuclear accident in Tokai, Japan.

Lessons Learned from the Jco Nuclear Criticality Accident in Japan

FOREWORD Since the tragic Chernobyl accident in 1986, many improvements have been made in nuclear installations and in radiological protection. The state of nuclear and radiation safety has been very much enhanced in the last two decades by accumulation of experience and knowledge, and improvements to relevant technology and the global nuclear safety regime. However, in recent years some reoccu...

Anxiety, distress and anger among British nationals in Japan following the Fukushima nuclear accident.

BACKGROUND The 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. AIMS To quantify emotional responses among British nationals in Japan and to assess whether perceptions about the incident or accessing information about it were associated with responses. METHOD A total of 284 participants randomly selected from official records completed a survey th...

Increases in perinatal mortality in prefectures contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in Japan

Descriptive observational studies showed upward jumps in secular European perinatal mortality trends after Chernobyl. The question arises whether the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident entailed similar phenomena in Japan. For 47 prefectures representing 15.2 million births from 2001 to 2014, the Japanese government provides monthly statistics on 69,171 cases of perinatal death of the fetus ...

A scale for measuring the severity of diagnostic errors in accident and emergency departments.

OBJECTIVE To design and test a simple scale for measuring the severity of diagnostic errors occurring in accident and emergency (A&E) departments. METHODS Empirical design of a scale which indicates the severity of errors on a scale of 1 to 7. It is obtained by adding two scores which indicate the additional treatment which a patient would have received and the follow up which would have been...