Worker’s Cancer Linked to Fukushima Blast for First Time

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A worker is given radiation screening at the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant.

Photographer: David Guttenfelder/Via Bloomberg
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Japan’s health ministry confirmed for the first time that leukemia found in a worker at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant is a result of the March 2011 atomic disaster.

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