Fukushima to provide life-time cancer checks (JAPAN)

[AsahinaKimi]

Children in disaster-affected Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, hold dosemeters on June 21. (Kengo Hiyoshi)

Fukushima Prefecture on July 24 finalized the nation's largest life-time health study to check for thyroid-gland cancer among 360,000 young people living near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

Under the program, residents under 19 as of April 1 will undergo ultrasonic exams from October 2011 to March 2014 to check for symptoms of thyroid-gland cancer.

They will then take the same exam every two years.

For residents over 19, the exams will be performed every five years free of charge.

http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201107250345.html

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すごいね！wonderful!

[valerief]

1. They probably figure they won't last too long since they've given these people a slow death anyway.

[Art_from_Ark]

2. I can understand your cynicism, but

I have done a lot of translations of guidebooks of Japanese municipalities, and without exception, all of those municipalities have been proud of the cradle-to-grave health services that they provide their residents. Health care services are part of the social contract in Japan.

[valerief]

3. As they should be. And they should be ashamed of their nuclear plants. nt

[TheWraith]

4. Uh, no. Most people there haven't even seen enough radiation to have a substantial cancer increase.

Science is science to everyone.

[Cetacea]

5. Is that why Greenpeace was not permitted to monitor the levels??

[valerief]

6. Now, why, oh, why would they lie to us?

:sarcasm: