Five years after the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant, two organisations, doctors warn in a report published in the US that can show up to 10,000 extra cases of cancer in the country due to the radiation.”International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” (IPPN), relied, as pointed out by the NGOS, the scientific and medical data for kids, the staff participated in clean-up operations and for members of emergency rescue teams, as well as the population of Japan in general.
According to the report drawn up by 116 children in the region of Fukushima have already been diagnosed with an aggressive form or another of thyroid cancer. In a population of this size is recorded normally one to five cases of the year, highlighted in the report.
While in terms of cleaning staff and rescue workers “more than 25,000 people received high doses of radiation, which pose significant risks to their health”, according to non-governmental organisations.
The data provided by the management company of the station of Fukushima, the TEPCΟ, show that approximately 100 workers at the station will develop cancer due to excessive radiation doses to which they were exposed, and that about 50 of these cases will be fatal.
However, according to the report by the two NGOS, the doses of radiation to which they were exposed was much higher, while also, as you point out, the data for the employees may not have taken into account those who were working temporarily at the station.
Finally, with respect to the total population of the country, he was exposed to increasing doses of radiation from the radioactive fallout, like water and food that were contaminated, according to the authors of the report.
This on the basis of their calculations, translates into an increased risk of incidence of cancer in all of Japan, which are estimated 9,600 as 66,000 copies, depending on the doses of radiation to which they were exposed.
“The consequences for public health of Fukushima will haunt Japan for years, and this legacy should not be swept under the carpet by the supporters of nuclear energy,” notes the doctor, Catherine Thomason, which he drew up, together with other this report and is also director of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Also for Robert Carnival, a special energy policies of the Institute for Public Studies, and former counselor of the u.s. department of Energy, the Fukushima disaster created a “de facto zones of which it is no longer possible to be populated by people for a long time”.
In November 2011, the japanese ministry of Science has announced that 30,000 square kilometers of land in Japan -an area equivalent to that of the state of Connecticut– were contaminated by cesium, which remains radioactive for about 30 years.
The japanese government halted the operation of 14 of the 54 reactors in the country that were in operation before the Fukushima disaster, as well as had been built on seismically active faults. By 2015, four other reactors were up and running again.
About 10,000 new cases of cancer are afraid of the doctors in Fukushima
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