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The major UN report on the health impacts of the Fukushima accident concluded that any radiation-induced effects would be too small to identify. People were well protected and received "low or very low" radiation doses.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 02 April 2014
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UN-reports-on-Fukushima-radiation
The United Nations is to adopt advice on radiation that clarifies what can be said about its health effects on individuals and large populations. A preliminary report has also found no observable health effects from last year's nuclear accident in Fukushima.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Monday, 10 December 2012
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UN-approves-radiation-advice
A preliminary report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated the radiation doses that residents of Japan have received in the year following the accident at Fukushima Daiichi. Dose rates in most Fukushima homes outside the 20 kilometre evacuation zone were comparable to reference levels for radon.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 24 May 2012
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/WHO-on-Fukushima-doses
TEPCO, operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, has announced it plans to start a water treatment system for the flooded units 1-4 by 15 June. In addition, a desalination plant will also start up by then.
Schematic of height differential of Fukushima Daiichi reactor buildings demonstrates the extent of the water flooding problem; connections between units 1&2, (and also units 3&4), allow water heights to equalise in different buildings.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 06 June 2011
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstepco-releases-contaminated-water-tank-construction-schedule-721