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The author Sonja D. Schmid is an assistant progessor in STS at Virgina Tech. her areas of expertise include the history and set-up of previous Soviet Union nuclear powerplants and those in Eastern Europe. She also studies te way interational energy polices, the choice of techology and application affect each other. Her experience comes from studying the Soviet Union nuclear polices and interviewing those who had previous been involved in nuclear activites in Soviet Union nuclear industry.

This article has been references on many academic websites discussing the topic of biological citizenship, as well as how radiation from the disasters such as these can effect a country as a whole.

The viewpoints that are not included in this film were the people who may have been affected by the radiation either in Toyoko or the rest of Japan.

The article has been referenced in articles that give perspectives of how culture can affect a medical diagnosis. This article was published in 1994 so it was hard to find references on the article.

Emergency response is mentioned in the short and long term, in terms of placing infrastructure to direct and prevent diease. The authors stressed that dealing with epidemics as they happen is important to prevent further spread of diease. While long term repsonses in the past -clinics and medications- were placed, emergency response- going there and fixing the problem was stressed.