UN: Fukushima radiation worse than feared - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English

13.10.13

UN: Fukushima radiation worse than feared - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English: The UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation raised doubts about the dose estimates of the government and Tepco, in a summary of a report on October 12, according to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper on Saturday.

The UN committee analysed radiation doses in 25,000 people who worked at the station on or before October 2012, using data provided by the government, Tepco and others, the newspaper said.

It determined that the tests used on workers did not take into account some types of radiation.

In particular, workers were tested for thyroid gland doses from radioactive iodine after a significant delay, through procedures that failed to account for iodine-132 and iodine-133, which have half-lives of two hours and 20 hours respectively.