Fukushima repair worker’s leukemia officially deemed a work accident
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029309
Japan Times : On Tuesday, Japan’s health ministry officially certified that a construction worker who helped install covers on the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor buildings was entitled to benefits for the treatment of his leukemia. The man worked on the repairs from October 2012 to December 2013 and was diagnosed with leukemia more than a year later. The agency said that it did not find a causal link between the man’s exposure to radiation on the job and the cancer but that he met the conditions that qualified the disease as an industrial accident. He is the first person who worked at the facility to have been granted benefits for developing leukemia.
