Because harm from radiation can lie hidden for 20 or 30 years, it is still difficult to get an accurate figure of the number affected. But in the U.S. alone, it is estimated that in the next 50 years 200,000 people will be exposed to the threat of skin cancer.
由於輻射傷害可潛伏達二、三十年，因此具體的受害者數字尚難統計，但僅美國一地，估計未來五十年內，就會有廿萬人暴露在皮膚癌的威脅下。