Japan acknowledged the first death due to radiation at Fukushima

For the first time, Japan confirmed a worker working at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, once destroyed during the earthquake and tsunami more than 7 years ago, was killed by radioactive contamination.

The terrifying earthquake, with a later magnitude determined to be 9.0 on the Richter scale, hit Japan in March 2011, causing tsunamis that killed about 18,000 people and resulted in nuclear disaster. The world's most serious since the Chernobyl incident in Ukraine in 1986.

Radioactive garbage removal was carried out at the Fukushima power plant.(Photo: REUTERS).

In a new report, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare decided to compensate families of workers who died of lung cancer at the age of 50, according to Reuters, an official on Sept. 5. .

The victim spent his whole life working at nuclear power plants in Japan, and at least twice worked at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant under Tokyo Electric Power Corporation's management after the incident hit. because of the double disaster in March 2011.

He was diagnosed with cancer in February 2016.

Earlier, the ministry also admitted that four Fukushima workers had fallen ill due to radiation, but this was the first death.

More than 160,000 people were forced to evacuate after the disaster struck the Fukushima power plant.