While the Japanese authorities have just detected new radioactive water leaks in the Pacific, the nuclear disaster that affected the inhabitants of Fukushima on March 11, 2011 continues to worry the country. Indeed, “a survey carried out on the impact of radiation from the nuclear disaster on the inhabitants of Fukushima prefecture shows that 18 children are affected. thyroid cancer“, said AFP in a statement.
However, the link to the atomic disaster has not been certified despite tests carried out on more than 200,000 people under the age of 18. The monitoring committee for the health of the inhabitants of the disaster area, in charge of studying the impact of radiation, now has 18 cancers, “six more than in the previous report from last June. The number of suspected cases meanwhile went from 15 to 25 “, adds AFP.
But these cancers may have no connection with the accident according to experts, who are based on comparative data, as in the case of the Chernobyl disaster, where 6,000 thyroid cancers were reported in minors. According to them, the appearance of these cancers could only be linked to the nuclear accident if they had appeared 3 to 5 years after the fact.
