Posted on 10/22/2015 12:30:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A 41-year old man has become the first worker at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to be diagnosed with cancer that officials recognise as being linked to his work there after the March 2011 disaster.
The unnamed man, who was diagnosed with leukaemia in January 2014 after feeling unwell, spent a year working on reactor buildings that were badly damaged after a magnitude 9 earthquake triggered a tsunami that struck Fukushima and other parts of Japan’s north-east coast on 11 March 2011.
The disaster caused a triple meltdown at the nuclear plant, where so far almost 45,000 workers have been involved in a cleanup and decommissioning effort that is expected to cost billions of dollars and take about 40 years.
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Media reports said the man, an employee of one of the myriad contractors employed by Tepco, helped install covers on two damaged reactor buildings between October 2012 and December 2013. He was diagnosed with leukaemia while still in his 30s.
A health ministry official said the man had worn protective gear while at the plant and would be awarded compensation to cover medical costs and lost income. “While the causal link between his exposure to radiation and his illness is unclear, we certified him from the standpoint of worker compensation,” the official said.
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And still not one death attributed to Fukushima....
All the Chicken Littles were so wrong.
There will be many more, reported and unreported.
Misleading headline.
And all the headline-reading Freepers will be fooled again.
The worker received workman’s compensation for his leukemia. That’s it.
Hope Santa Claus brings you something good this xmas. He has brought nothing but death to the Pacific Ocean and cancer rates are off the hook in Japan. Exactly as predicted by everyone who thought three entire nuclear reactors would never melt down completely. And Hillary covered it all up for you.
Horse manure. Other than the man referenced to in the article, there are NO other cancers linked to Fukushima. Not that there may not be more down the line, but contrary to all the childish doom and gloom predictions, the sky has not fallen and Godzilla has not arisen.
You were a Chicken Little then, you’re a Chicken Little now. Grow the f__k up.
You denied any meltdowns for months. You lied. Three complete reactors melted. Complete. 100 %. Now admitted by Japan. So now we are on to the next lie. One cancer case from Fukushima. Three reactors completely melted down. The only thing the Japanese could do was vent as they melted down. People are dieing from cancer. They need our help, not our denial.
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