Fukushima starts health checks (JAPAN)

[AsahinaKimi]

Kyodo

FUKUSHIMA — The Fukushima Prefectural Government on Monday started conducting health checkups on its roughly 2 million residents in light of the radiation leaking from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

The prefecture has launched an unprecedented effort to continuously monitor the health of its residents for several decades. The data is expected help doctors around the world understand how low but long-term radiation exposure affects the human body.


Exposure check: A worker at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in the city of Chiba undergoes a thyroid radiation exposure checkup Monday. Residents of Fukushima Prefecture are now set to undergo similar exams. KYODO PHOTO

The first people to be examined, a group of 10 from the town of Namie, visited the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in the city of Chiba to find out how much internal contamination they have through urine tests and whole-body counter exams.

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[NYC_SKP]

1. Thank you, AsahinaKimi, for your regular and very reliable updates.

And your pictures of the day, as well.

You're an asset to the DU community!

:thumbsup:

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Wish I could recommend your post

[AsahinaKimi]

4. *blushes*

arigatou..

[murielm99]

5. You join Omaha Steve, and the gentleman who does the

stock market watch posts, those who post the toons, eowoyn_of_rohan, and a few others who keep us updated on vital news that many of us would miss otherwise.

I wish our mainstream media was still doing their job so you did not have to do it for them.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. What a nightmare...

Sadly some of this could have been avoided...