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[alfredofroylan]

Sadly we can expect more cases in the next months.

Japan’s health ministry confirmed for the first time that leukemia found in a worker at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant is a result of the March 2011 atomic disaster.

The male was in his 30s while working at the Fukushima facility north of Tokyo between October 2012 and December 2013, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

The finding comes as Tokyo Electric has sought to underscore progress in cleaning up and containing the worst nuclear disaster in decades and as the company, also known as Tepco, eyes a return to the bond market.

Tokyo Electric’s shares fell 4.5 percent to 832 yen on the Tokyo stock exchange, the biggest one-day drop since Sept. 1. “First signs of big trouble ahead for Tepco as radiation exposure looks to be taking its toll on workers’ health,” Amir Anvarzadeh, Singapore-based global head of Japan equity sales at BGC Capital Partners Inc. said in an e-mail. “Tepco could be facing huge lawsuits if and when radiation leaks are linked to health issues.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...rker-s-leukemia-linked-to-fukushima-blast-nhk

 

[LostCaress]

Is it provable that it was from fukushima? I got 83 mSv but it was on a 3 months period I think.

 

[Akuun]

Depressing, but not surprising. It sounds like Tepco was being a bunch of scummy fucks throughout the entire ordeal.

 

[mcrommert]

Yeah not proven at all...people in the normal populace get leukemia also and this hasn't changed the background cancer levels. FUD is easy

"There is still debate, however, as to whether low doses of radiation, below a threshold of 100 mSv, has a direct link to leukemia."