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Fukushima 10 Years On / No Direct Adverse Health Defects Have Been Documented, Says Updated UN Report

By David Dalton
10 March 2021

Increase in cancers among nuclear station workers ‘unlikely to be discernible’, latest data suggests
No Direct Adverse Health Defects Have Been Documented, Says Updated UN Report
The Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station in northern Japan. Courtesy Tepco.
No adverse health effects among Fukushima residents have been documented that are directly attributable to radiation exposure from the March 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi accident and revised estimates suggest that future radiation-associated health effects are unlikely to be discernible, says a United Nations report.

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