I have written in The National challenging this policy with evidence of the dreadful physical health risks it poses to our population. In the wake of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan (below) in March 2011 and the release of large quantities of radioactive, carcinogenic material into the atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean, researchers at Osaka University have been investigating the effects on the local population. They concluded, in a peer-reviewed report, that “psychological distress and exposure to environmental carcino