Years After Japan’s Nuclear Disaster, People With Cancer Seek Answers
3 September 2025 at 13:49
A survey has found hundreds of thyroid tumors, but Japanese officials say they are unrelated to the Fukushima meltdowns. Now they face a lawsuit.
A middle schooler in Fukushima, Japan, during the nuclear meltdown in 2011, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer a few years later.
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