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Fukushima nuclear disaster: first worker diagnosed with cancer linked to cleanup

2015-10-20 17:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: A 41-year old man has become the first worker at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to be diagnosed with cancer that officials recognise as being linked to his work there after the March 2011 disaster. The unnamed man, who was diagnosed with leukaemia in January 2014 after feeling unwell, spent a year working on reactor buildings that were badly damaged after a magnitude 9 earthquake triggered a tsunami that struck Fukushima and other parts of Japans north-east coast on 11 March 2011....

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