New Report Expects a Million Cancer Deaths from Fukushima Fallout
Underestimated and Underreported
by Christina Sarich
In a new report published by Fairewinds Energy Education (FEE), “Cancer
on the Rise in Post-Fukushima Japan,” we learn that that the ongoing
multi-core nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has produced
approximately 230 times higher-than-normal thyroid cancers in Fukushima
Prefecture, and could result in as many as one million more cancers due
to the incident that happened in March of 2011.
Five years later and we are still getting a grip on how catastrophic Fukushima truly was to this planet and its people.
Highly esteemed Japanese medical professionals and Tokyo Electric Power
Company (TEPCO) confirm a direct link to the elevated number of cancers
in Japan to the Daiichi plant’s meltdown. The report details how heavy
radioactive discharges from the site will be the cause of ongoing cancer
cases throughout the surrounding area.
TEPCO recently confirmed
in a press release that workers exposed to the radiation from the
attempted clean up over the past 4 years have developed leukemia, and
medical professionals confirm that the incidence of thyroid cancer in
the Fukushima Prefecture have grown to 230 the normal rate. (TEPCO was
required to measure workers for radiation they received while working on
the site.)
