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Japan Confirms First Radiation-Linked Death Out of Fukushima (bbc.co.uk)
Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare announced for the first time that a man employed at the Fukushima nuclear power plant died of lung cancer linked to radiation exposure. "The man, who was in his 50s, died from lung cancer that was diagnosed in 2016," reports the BBC. "Japan's government had previously agreed that radiation caused illness in four workers but this is the first acknowledged death." From the report: The Fukushima reactor suffered meltdowns after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and a tsunami in March 2011. Cooling systems were wrecked at the plant on Japan's north-east coast and radioactive material leaked out. The employee who died had worked at atomic power stations since 1980 and was in charge of measuring radiation at the Fukushima No 1 plant shortly after its meltdown. He worked there at least twice after it was damaged, and had worn a face mask and protective suit, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare said. After hearing opinions from a panel of radiologists and other experts, the ministry ruled that the man's family should be paid compensation.
This was a second gen reactor that took an earthquake that was a hundred times worse than one it was set up to outlive, and outlived it. Then it got hit by tsunami that basically annihilated the infrastructure in the entire region, and killed something around 15.000-30.000 people. We still don't know how many actually died, because local registries that held records of how many people actually lived in those regions were destroyed in the tsunami alongside people, and Japan has highly localized citizen registry. So the only deaths we know of are the ones that were held in registries that survived the tsunami.
This is the first radiation linked death out of that entire accident. I think it's safe to make a claim that even old reactors are safe from radiation's lethality standpoint when lethality of the entire event is considered, especially considering that nearby units 5 and 6 were in fixable condition with only minor damage, and were shut down for political reasons.
So the real problem is corruption in companies that save money on seawalls in tsunami areas and ignore warnings about it.
Did you not GET the memo?
We are required to be horrified, incensed, and reactionary to a death due to nuclear power.
Those 30,000 people who died form the tsunami, well, its really just natural causes, right? right?
Same for the massive property destruction, the families torn apart! None of that comes CLOSE to a single death due to the man made satan of nuclear power!
What we need is MORE reports of ANY form of radiation measurement, because ALL RADIATION KILLS.
We should check every basement! every banana!
This radiation is directly caused by mankind intentionally destroying the lovely natural Gaia we evolved in harmony with!
It MUST be STOPPED!
Instead we should burn lovely natural warming sweet delicious coal. Ok, so there is a little radiation release from that, but its nice NATURAL radiation, and anyway, the lung cancer is usually from the carcinogens in the soot, so it doesn't count! thats NATURAL cancer!
This death is not medically attributed to Fukushima. It is simply the result of a legal requirement that all cancers in workers who worked at Fukushima and got a certain level of exposure be attributed to Fukushima so that they cover medical costs. Its a social/cultural thing they do,
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‘Safety regulators say workers can be safely exposed to up to 50 millisieverts a year, but if a worker with an accumulated 100 millisieverts develops an illness after five years of exposure, that can be ruled an occupational injury. According to an expert cited by the Mainichi Shimbun, a daily newspaper, the man had been exposed to 74 millisieverts at the Fukushima plant since the accident.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
Medical science tells us that such a cancer is highly unlikely to be caused by exposures at these levels. There is a huge body of science to back this up.
Too easy to fool the media. Does anybody even think about the details.