WHO says “no observable increases in cancer rates above baseline rates are anticipated” inside and outside Japan. Greenpeace is crying foul, NHK quotes experts saying WHO is overly cautious and exaggerating the risks, UK’s Guardian emphasizes “70%” increase in thyroid cancer (from 0.77% to 1.29%), Scientific American credits “fortunate” wind direction. From WHO press release […]

The Fukushima Daiich meltdown prompted the previous government to pledge a phaseout of all 50 reactors in Japan. Almost two years after the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi power plant sent shockwaves around the world, Japan’s government is attempting to resell the nuclear dream to a traumatised public. Japan appeared to have ended its addiction […]

As the two-year anniversary of the world’s second-worst nuclear accident nears, citizen groups are questioning the accuracy of the government’s contamination data for the area around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. As the two-year anniversary of the world’s second-worst nuclear accident nears, citizen groups are questioning the accuracy of the government’s contamination data for the […]

Girls exposed as infants in the worst hit areas have a higher risk of developing thyroid cancer over their lifetime People in the area worst affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident two years ago have a higher risk of developing certain cancers, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake […]

* Girls at greater risk of thyroid cancer – report * Report finds increased risk of breast cancer, leukaemia * Small additional risk of contracting cancer – expert * WHO urges further monitoring, health-care follow up GENEVA, Feb 28 (Reuters) – People in the area worst affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident two years […]

Alarms sounded and lights flashed as control panel dials at a nuclear power plant in upstate New York warned that the power for safety equipment was failing. The room went dark until the emergency lights kicked in. But there was no reason to worry on this frozen winter morning. This was a simulation by Constellation […]

Two years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a new phenomenon is on the rise: atomic divorce. Abigail Haworth reports on the unbearable pressures and prejudices being faced by those caught in the radiation zone Perhaps one day Aiko and Kenji Nomura will laugh about the Birthday Cake Incident. It happened last autumn. Aiko, a care […]

After Fukushima: families on the edge of meltdown […] ‘Each anniversary we will be thinking, “Is this the year one of our daughters will get sick?”’ Kenji and Aiko Nomura with Sakura, 3, and 15-month-old Koto. […] In the aftermath, radiation levels in Koriyama spiked at 30 to 40 times higher than legal limits, contaminating […]

The Fukushima Prefectural government has revealed that two more people, both aged 18 or younger when the Fukushima nuclear crisis broke out in March 2011, have been diagnosed with having thyroid cancer. This brings the total number of cases to three. All three diagnosed patients have undergone surgery, and are doing well, according to reports. […]

Ever since the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima power plant, many Japanese people have been living with the fear of cancer. Experts find it difficult to estimate how many people will actually fall ill, but they’re more concerned about the psychological consequences of the catastrophe. The borders of the restricted zone cut through the village […]