The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) briefed residents in Fukushima Prefecture at a meeting in Iwaki city on Feb. 9 on its findings from a follow-up to its earlier report on the effects of radiation exposure caused by the 2011 accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The committee said in the report published in 2013 that “no discernible increase” is expected in cancer rates among local people. In its follow-up report in October last year, the U.N. panel said “none” of the new information appraised after the initial report “materially affected the main findings in, or challenged the major assumptions of, the 2013 Fukushima report.”
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