Fukushima disaster: Radiation levels posing cancer risks on fourth anniversary of earthquake
AM
By North Asia correspondent Matthew Carney
Updated yesterday at 10:54pm
... About 120,000 people still cannot return their homes because of high radiation levels, but the issue of long-term health implications like cancer are causing the greatest concern and controversy in Japan.
Before the disaster, there was just one to two cases of thyroid cancers in a million Japanese children but now Fukushima has more than 100 confirmed or suspected cases, having tested about 300,000 children...
AM
By North Asia correspondent Matthew Carney
Updated yesterday at 10:54pm
... About 120,000 people still cannot return their homes because of high radiation levels, but the issue of long-term health implications like cancer are causing the greatest concern and controversy in Japan.
Before the disaster, there was just one to two cases of thyroid cancers in a million Japanese children but now Fukushima has more than 100 confirmed or suspected cases, having tested about 300,000 children...