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U.N. says no adverse health effects linked to 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster


The U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation said the incidence of cancers in workers at the Fukushima power plant is unlikely to be discernible. WITHOUT EVIDENCE

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March 10 (UPI) -- Fukushima residents suffered no adverse health effects from radiation caused by the nuclear meltdown a decade ago at the prefecture's power plant, a new report from the United Nation's said.

Published Tuesday, the 243-page report by the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation examines all scientific data available concerning the 2011 meltdown, finding that in the intervening years no negative health issues could be directly tied to radiation from the incident.

"No adverse health effects among Fukushima Prefecture residents have been documented that are attributable to radiation exposure from the FDNPS accident," the report said, referring to the plant by the initials of its full name, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

It also said future health issues directly related to the incident would also likely be indiscernible.

The UNSCEAR determined the large increase in thyroid cancer among children exposed to radiation from the accident can be attributed to improved screening procedures SAME EXCUSE TRUMP GAVE DURING COVID INCREASES IN USA"that have revealed the prevalence of thyroid abnormalities in the population not previously detected." 

 

"An increase in the incidence of cancers is unlikely to be discernible in workers for leukaemia, total solid cancers or thyroid cancer," it said, adding that there was insufficient information for the committee to reach an informed judgement on the risk of cataracts linked to the meltdown.

Evidence of stillbirths, preterm deliveries, low birthweight or congenital anomalies connected to radiation from the plant remains absent, according to the report. WHICH MAY MEAN IT HAS NOT BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR

 

It also said while it continues to consider radiation impacts on wildlife populations in Fukushima, it doesn't expect to find a clear causal link though "detrimental effects on individual organisms might have been possible, and some effects have been observed in plants and animals in the absence of any wide-scale group impacts."

Studies that have found wildlife population impacts remain "subject to some doubt," it said, adding that current assessment methods may not be adequate and further study would be valuable.

The United Nations said in a statement that the report broadly confirms its initial findings from its 2013 report on the accident.

Some 20,000 people were killed and more than 160,000 residents in Fukushima fled their homes after an earthquake-induced tsunami on March 11, 2011, flooded hundreds of miles and severely damaged three nuclear reactors at the power plant, causing it to release massive quantities of radiation. It is the worst nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.


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