A GROUP of children exposed to higher radiation levels from the Fukushima nuclear accident faces a slightly higher risk of thyroid cancer, UN experts say.
However, there would be no measurable rise of cancer in the Japanese population overall, the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) said in its final report on the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
About 1000 children who were evacuated from the vicinity received a radiation dose of up to 80 milligrays.
"If we are honest, we must say there is a chance that a few of these children will have received thyroid doses which are high enough that sometimes in the future, thyroid cancer can develop," said German expert Wolfgang Weiss, who co-ordinated the UNSCEAR investigation.
For the study, more than 80 scientists from 18 countries analysed the radiation levels to which people in Japan were exposed, and the likelihood that the rate of cancers affecting the thyroid, blood, breasts or other organs will rise.
The Japanese people were rightly concerned, UNSCEAR chairman Carl-Magnus Larsson said.
"Based on this assessment, however, the committee does not expect significant changes in future cancer statistics that could be attributed to radiation exposure from the accident," he said on Wednesday.
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