They will present their lawsuit on Thursday afternoon against the empresa Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), operator of the plant, to demand compensation of 616 million yen ($5.4 million), said the group’s lawyer, Kenichi Ido.
An expert panel formed by the regional government found no causal link between radiation exposure from the disaster and thyroid cancer, which could be a focal point in the case.
A report from the United Nations (UN) published last year concluded that the Fukushima nuclear disaster had not directly harmed the health of local people a decade after the fact.
The rise in thyroid cancer cases among children exposed to radiation could be due to better diagnoses, the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation has concluded.
But lawyers for the young men say that none of the cancer cases among the group is hereditary and that it is very likely that the disease was caused by their exposure to radiation.
The plaintiffs were between the ages of six and 16 at the time of the nuclear spill and were diagnosed with thyroid cancer between 2012 and 2018.
The Fukushima Daiichi plant accident was the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986, after which large numbers of thyroid cancer cases were detected.
The disaster in northeastern Japan left some 18,500 dead or missing, most of them because of the tsunami.
As of June 2021, 266 cases, or suspects, of childhood thyroid cancer have been detected, a local authority said.
“When the lawsuit comes, we will deal with it sincerely after carefully reading the details,” TEPCO spokesman Takahiro Yamato said.
Source From: Ambito
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