When Japan ’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear magnate industrial plant suffered its meltdown in 2011 , over 44,0000 workers helped safely take it offline . Now , more than four years later on , comes the first diagnosis of malignant neoplastic disease in a retrieval actor to be linked to radiation picture during the work .
Earlier today , describe the Washington Post , Japan ’s ministry of health , labor and benefit denote that an nameless recovery worker had been diagnosed with leukaemia . They also intromit that the genus Cancer was link to the work he performed at the plant , and that he has filed a recompense claim .
Nipponese paper Asahi Shimbun has report a few more details . The man is say to be 41 and worked near the No.3 and No.4 nuclear reactor at the plant between 20012 and 2013 . He was diagnosed with needlelike myelogenous cancer of the blood , which is a cancer of the blood and bone heart , in 2014 .

Tokyo Electric Power Co. ( Tepco ) has extensively documented its effort to screen workers from as much radiation sickness as possible , and provide monthly reports to the Nipponese ministry of health about the exposure its worker suffer . The radiation dot limit at the site is 1.71 mSv per calendar month ; as of August , the fair worker dose was .31 mSv .
Asahi Shimbun reports that the world name with Crab was exposed to 16 mSv . It ’s worth mention , however , that he was n’t an employee but a contractile organ , andreports suggestthat contractors have been debunk to higher doses of radiation sickness than employee .
[ Washington Post ]

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