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UK Telegraph 20 Oct 2015
A former Fukushima nuclear plant worker has been diagnosed with radiation-linked cancer, Japanese authorities said Tuesday, the first confirmed case since the 2011 accident that experts say could be just the "tip of the iceberg".
A health ministry official said the unnamed man, who was in his thirties while working at the plant following the 2011 crisis, has leukaemia. He is now 41 years old, local media reported.
The announcement will likely further inflame widespread public opposition to nuclear power, and could frustrate efforts to resettle evacuees in communities around the crippled Fukushima plant that have been deemed safe.
It also comes less than a week after the controversial restart of a second reactor in Japan following a shutdown of all reactors in the wake of the crisis.
They said this couldn't happen because...safety
"This person went to see a doctor because was not feeling well. That was when he was diagnosed with leukaemia," the health ministry official told a press briefing on condition of anonymity, adding that other possible causes had been ruled out...snip
MORE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/11942611/First-Fukushima-worker-diagnosed-with-radiation-linked-cancer.html
Nuclear fission to boil water to turn turbines to power toasters. Absurd.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)So much about this is not being told.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Green for victory!
Sid
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(28,979 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor 3 melted down, its containment building exploded, before or after it melted down, and today still exposes the plutonium-oxide fuel in the reactor and in the spent fuel pool to the environment. The other two reactors in meltdown used enriched uranium fuel, still major disasters each.
FBaggins
(26,731 posts)* All spent reactor fuel has plutonium in it
* None of the reactors at Fukushima (including Unit #3) had spent MOX in the fuel pool