In a First, Japan Says Fukushima Radiation Caused Worker's Cancer Death

[Rhiannon12866]

TOKYO — More than seven years after a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan acknowledged for the first time this week that a worker died from cancer after being exposed to radiation.

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said the man, who was not identified, had worked mostly at the Fukushima Daiichi plant over 28 years and had died of lung cancer.

Three years ago the government awarded workers’ compensation to a man who developed leukemia while working on the Fukushima cleanup, but this week marked the first acknowledgment that exposure to radiation at the site caused a death. The government has acknowledged that three other Fukushima workers developed leukemia and thyroid cancer after working on the plant cleanup. About 5,000 workers labor at the site daily.

The ministry said the man who died worked for a subcontractor to Tokyo Electric Power Company, the plant’s operator. He was in his 50s and was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2016. His family did not wish his precise date of death to be released, according to the health ministry.


More: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/world/asia/japan-fukushima-radiation-cancer-death.html



A worker monitored radiation the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Japan acknowledged this week that a worker at the plant died from cancer after being exposed to radiation. Credit: Ko Sasaki for The New York Times

[ZZenith]

1. NNadir is gonna be pissed when he hears about this. N/t

[NNadir]

2. Not as "pissed" as I am that no one compares this death to...

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....to the 7 million people who die each year from air pollution each year.

I'm well accustomed to the ethical vapidity that estimates that one death from Fukushima is worth tons of attention, whereas the 49 million deaths from air pollution since 2011 get no remark here, unless I make it

The death toll from the air pollution generated around the world to discuss the earth shaking traged on the internet, a radiation death in an event wherein 20,000 people died from seawater, the big bad Fukushima, is exactly an indication of the vast ignorance destroying the planetary birthright of all future generations.

If you're not angry, you're not paying attention to anything that really matters.

I note that a few years back, a trichlorosilane explosion instantly killed 5 people in Japan and severely injured 13 others. Typically, among the partisans of the failed and useless solar industry, which has never produced a fraction of what nuclear energy produces no one - except on an obscure "solar will save us" website - gave a shit.

Typical, unsurprising, but a clear indication of the lack of intellectual and moral of integrity of the antinuke cults.