The local authority is carrying out long-term testing of children who were
under the age of 18 on March 11 last year, the day on which the magnitude-9
Great East Japan struck off the coast of north-east Japan, triggering the
massive tsunami that crippled the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Thyroid examinations were first conducted in October last year and will be
carried out every two years up to the age of 20 and every five years for the
rest of the children’s lives.
A second report has been issued by Japan’s Institute of Radiological Sciences
in which it found that some children living close to the plant were exposed
to “lifetime” doses of radiation to their thyroid glands.
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