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First case of compensation for cancer in Fukushima worker

Fukushima workers started having cancer
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/10/fukushima-workers-started-having-cancer/ by Mochizuki   October 5th, 2012 In September, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare admitted a Fukushima worker applied for workmen’s compensation insurance. It isfor gastric cancer, esophageal cancer or colon cancer.
This is the first case of the application of workmen’s compensation insurance. The occupational disease department of MHLW is concealing the profile and the integral dose of the worker.

Another nuclear worker commented like this below,

「ひょっとして、今回労災申請した人物は知人かもしれません。２カ月ほど前、がんで神奈川県内の病院で手術した同僚がいて、彼は『内部被曝の影響かもしれない』と話していたからです。“カウント・パー・ミニッツ”という内部被曝量を測る単位があり、事故前は８００が上限とされていました。それが事故直後、１１２倍の９万カウントなんて値が出ていた。これは使用済み燃料棒を特殊ケースに搬入する時の値に近い。こんな作業をやらせた揚げ句に、がんが発病したのです。ハッキリとした因果関係は分からないにせよ、“明日は我が身”と思っている作業員は少なくありません」

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The person who applied for workmen’s compensation insurance may be my
acquaintance. 2 months ago, one of my coworkers had a surgery for
cancer in a hospital of Kanagawa prefecture, and he was saying it
might be from internal exposure. CPM is the indicator to tell your
internal exposure dose.
Before 311, the max was 800 cpm, but just after 311, it jumped up to
90,000 cpm, which is 112 times much as before. This is almost the
number of when you put spent fuel rods into the case.
After having us do such tasks, we are starting to have cancers. The
causal relationship is not clear, but not little workers think
“Tomorrow it might be me.”
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October 6, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, Japan