We have compiled the materials below on radiation
exposure in Japan, particularly that resulting from the activities of
the nuclear industry. Research into radiation illness in Japan has been
of immense significance. Initially research focused mainly on radiation
illnesses caused by the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II,
however the adverse health effects of radiation on nuclear workers is
gradually gaining recognition too.
See our Data page
for links to annual worker radiation exposure figures.
See our JCO
Criticality Accident page for detailed information on the worst
case of radiation exposure in the history of Japan's nuclear industry.
An
Attempt to Estimate Early-stage Radiation Exposure Dose at the Location
of Every Household in Iitate Village, Fukushima (NIT 153, Mar/Apr 2013)
Problems
emerge in operations to bring the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power
Station accident to an end, and in decontamination operations (NIT 153, Mar/Apr 2013)
Radioactive
Contamination of Japanese Tea after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident (NIT 152, Jan/Feb 2013)
What was clarified by
The National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent
Investigation Commission?
- Focusing on low-level radiation exposure risk - (NIT 151, Nov/Dec 2012)
Labor
Standards Inspection Office in Yokohama recognizes death of Fukushima
nuclear worker as eligible for compensation (NIT 148, May/June 2012)
New
Standards for Radioactive Cesium in Food (NIT 148, May/June 2012)
My
Opinion on Radioactive Disaster Waste (NIT 147, March/April 2012)
The
Problem of the Meteorological Research Institute’s Environmental
Radiation Research (NIT 147, March/April 2012)
Fukushima:
Take measures for worker exposure (NIT 146, Jan./Feb. 2012)
Japan
radioactive contamination map (NIT 145, Nov./Dec. 2011)
Fukushima:
Radioactive
contamination spreading daily Concerns about damage to health due to
radiation exposure (NIT 145, Nov./Dec. 2011)
Aiming
for Renewed Agriculture in the Chernobyl Disaster Area (NIT 144,
Sep./Oct. 2011)
Difficult
clean-up operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NIT
144, Sep./Oct. 2011)
Lax
radiation dose calculations continue at Fukushima Nuclear Power Station
(NIT 143, July/Aug. 2011)
25
Years after the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident : Welcoming to Japan a
guest who still lives within the highly polluted region (NIT142,
May/June 2011)
Epidemiological
Study of Workers at Nuclear Power Generating Facilities: 4th Period
FY2005 to FY2009 (NIT 141, March/April 2011)
Ryusuke
Umeda's Worker's Compensation Claim Rejected (NIT 139, Nov./Dec.
2010)
Workers'
Radiation Exposure Data for FY2009 (NIT 138 Sep./Aug. 2010)
Ryusuke Umeda
Lodges Historic Workers' Compensation Claim (NIT 135 March/April
2010)
Workers'
Radiation Exposure Data for FY2008 (NIT 132 September/October 2009)
Certification
of Sufferers of Atomic Bomb-Related Diseases (NIT 131 July/Aug.
2009)
Worker
Radiation Exposure at Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (NIT 131
July/Aug. 2009)
Multiple
Myeloma and Malignant Lymphoma on Workers' Compo List (NIT 131
July/Aug. 2009)
Nagao vs.
TEPCO: Tokyo High Court Upholds Unjust Verdict (NIT 130 May/June
2009)
Kiyuna
and Nagao Worker Exposure Compensation Claims (NIT 127 Nov./Dec.
2008)
Worker
Exposure Data for 2007 and the Workers' Compensation Case of the Late
Tadashi Kiyuna (NIT 126 Sep./Oct. 2008)
Nagao versus
TEPCO: Unjust Verdict (NIT 125, July/Aug. 2008)
Situation
of Japanese Nuclear Workers (NIT 121 Nov./Dec. 2007)
Worker
Exposure Data for 2006 and the Workers' Compensation Case of the Late
Tadashi Kiyuna (NIT 120 Sep./Oct. 2007)
Workers'
Radiation Exposure at Japan's Nuclear Facilities: data for April
2005 - March 2006 (NIT 114, Sep./Oct. 2004)
Promoting
Food Irradiation Without First Verifying its Safety (NIT 114,
Sep./Oct. 2004)
Exposure
to Radiation During Regular Operations of Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
(NIT 114, Sep./Oct. 2004)
Active
Tests at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant includes report on
internal exposure to plutonium (NIT 113, July/Aug. 2006)
Project
to measure radioactivity released from Rokkasho (NIT March/April
2006)
Chernobyl
20th Anniversary in Japan (NIT March/April 2006)
Management
of cosmic ray exposure to aircraft crew (NIT 109 Nov./Dec. 2005)
Workers'
radiation exposure at Japan's nuclear power plants: data for the
2004 fiscal year (NIT 108 Sep./Oct. 2005)
Workers'
radiation exposure at Japan's nuclear facilities: data for the 2003
fiscal year (NIT 103 Nov./Dec. 2004)
Multiple
Myeloma Workers' Compensation Case (NIT99 March/April 2004)
Workers'
Radiation Exposure from Replacing Reactor Core Shroud and Recirculation
Pump (NIT96 July/Aug. 2003)
Workers'
radiation exposure at Japan's nuclear power plants: data for the
2002 fiscal year (NIT 96 July/Aug. 2003)
Interim
Storage Facility (NIT95 May/June 2003)
Workers'
radiation exposure at Japan's nuclear power plants: data for the
2001 fiscal year (NIT 91 Sep./Oct. 2003)
See also back issues of our bi-monthly publication, Nuke Info Tokyo, for more
materials.
