Workers in protective suits and masks wait to enter the
emergency operation center at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi
nuclear power station in Okuma, Japan, in 2011. / David
Guttenfelder, AP LONDON - People exposed to the highest doses of
radiation during Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in
2011 may have a slightly higher risk of cancer but one so small
it probably won't be detectable, the World Health Organization
said in a report released Thursday. A group of experts convened
by the agency assessed the risk of various cancers based on
estimates of how much radiation people at the epicenter of the
nuclear disaster received, namely those directly under the
plumes of radiation in the most affected communities in
Fukushima, a rural agricultural area about 150 miles north of
Tokyo. Some 110,000 people living around the Fukushima Dai-ichi
nuclear plant were evacuated after the massive March 11, 2011,
earthquake and tsunami knocked out the plant's power and cooling
systems, causing meltdowns in three react