CNN Pandoras Promise November 8, 2013 08:38:00
Hauling away contaminated earth. 142,000 female remain evacuees across the region. children in the early days wore decimeters. the children of fukushima are also being carefully watched. before the triple meltdown, health authorities estimated one or two in a million children would be diagnosed with thyroid cancer. the government has screened 216,000 fukushima children. so far 44 have been diagnosed or suspected of having thyroid cancer. but the government has kept the details secret. it normally takes more than five years for thyroid cancer symptoms to show after exposure. it's only been thre...