Fukushima children are exposed to radiation below the danger threshold

The group of scientists from the National Radiation Science Institute (NIRS) on January 27 said the level of radiation exposure in a 1-year-old children's thyroid gland that lives around Gong's No.1 Fukushima nuclear power plant. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) was determined to be under 30 milisievert (mSv) in most visits.

This figure is much lower than the 50mSv exposure threshold recommended by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to use iodine to prevent exposure.

Check for radiation exposure in children

The NIRS team also produced the above calculation results through various data, including thyroid test results for about 1,000 children in Fukushima Prefecture, where the Fukushima plant No. 1 is located, conducted. Immediately after the nuclear crisis occurred as well as measures of exposure dose accumulating radioactive substances to the human body.

This calculation result was announced at an international conference in Tokyo on January 27.

The research leader, Osamu Kurihara, said: 'This finding is a positive signal for people living near the plant but the data does not reflect the specific activities of each person' at the time the factory meets major incident due to earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

Mr. Kurihara insisted: 'From now on, we need to increase the accuracy of this study.'

After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine in 1986, thyroid cancer spread among children living near the factory.

After the nuclear crisis in Fukushima, Japan's nuclear regulatory agency is considering urging governments at all levels to distribute iodine tablets to help prevent the risk of developing thyroid cancer once it occurs. nuclear incidents.