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text: reply  on april    pm  fukushima disaster caused at least  fatalities last year as radiation death rate accelerates  april   by david gutierrez natural newsaccording to the most recent report deaths in japan attributable to the  fukushima nuclear disaster have continued to increase last year the number of deaths increased by  over the year beforea march  earthquake and tsunami triggered multiple meltdowns at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant on japans northeast coast in what has become the worst nuclear disaster in history a massive radioactive plume was released by the meltdowns and the crippled plant has continued to leak radiation into the surrounding environment including into the pacific oceana total of about  people were evacuated as a result of the fukushima disaster more fatalities on the horizon according to data collected by the fukushima prefecture  saw  nuclearrelated deaths the two towns with the greatest number of deaths were both near the fukushima plant namie with  dead and tomioka with  deadthe term nuclearrelated means a death that does not result directly from radiation exposure but is caused by a disease later caused by that exposure indeed it is radiationrelated diseases  including cancer tumors and genetic damage  that often cause the bulk of health problems and fatalities in cases of radiation exposureone of the diseases particularly expected to show an uptick after the fukushima disaster is thyroid cancer because radioactive iodine from nuclear disasters tends to concentrate in the thyroid gland an estimated  children contracted thyroid cancer following the chernobyl nuclear disaster it typically takes four to five years for most nuclearrelated thyroid cancers to manifest and as that window approaches many fukushima parents believe that their children are already showing symptoms fukushima officials have tested approximately  children and have turned up  cases of the disease in contrast to the predisaster rate of one or two per million childrenone parent concerned about her childs thyroid cancer risk is megumi muto mutos daughter nana has been diagnosed with lumps in her thyroid gland and the lumps are growing muto is certain that the tumors were caused by nanas exposure to fukushima radiationi feel angry muto said i think the authorities hide the real dangers and now many more children are being diagnosedthe health of both of mutos children has deteriorated after being exposed to the radioactive fallout she saidthey had rashes on their bodies then nose bleeds my sons white cells have decreased and they both have incredible fatigue she said they may not have cancer now but they both have multiple nodules around their thyroids im really worried residents suing government muto and about  other fukushima residents are currently suing the local and national governments alleging that the governments failed to protect their children during the nuclear disasterthis sentiment was echoed in a recent report released by a parliamentary panel which said that the fukushima incident was in part a manmade disaster caused by government regulatory authorities and tokyo electric power company which were all lacking in a sense of responsibility to protect peoples lives and societybecause they do not trust the governments number muto and her fellow plaintiffs have conducted their own tests of the radiation levels in their neighborhoods one test conducted near a school in fukushima city registered radiation levels nearly  times that found in tokyothose levels are high enough to warrant investigation said plaintiff sumio konno who has been a nuclear engineer for  yearsi have to investigate and inform the public of the facts that is why i have become one of the plaintiffs of the court cases konno said theyre still not decontaminating areas where children live or near schools even after four years sources