From researchers working outside the Japanese government departments and those higher education institutions dependent on funds from that government or the nuclear industry itself, the above headline and this:

As we approach the 15-year mark since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNS) disaster, brought about by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Japanese government, the government is still unable to revoke the Nuclear Emergency Declaration. Further, without knowing what will happen in the future, and with an exceedingly hazardous accident site that has absolutely no outlook for a final conclusion, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station is being restarted. This stance itself fully exposes the true nature of TEPCO, and despite its being a company that is essentially declaring itself to be extremely irresponsible, the government makes no attempt to regulate it.

Childhood thyroid cancer in Fukushima Prefecture is at a level of several tens of times above normal incidence, but neither TEPCO nor the government recognize exposure to radiation as the cause. Whatever textbooks or papers you look at, however, all state that “exposure to radiation is a definite carcinogenetic factor for thyroid cancer.” There is no safe dose of radiation. As indicated by the “linear no-threshold (LNT) model” the risk increases in direct proportion to the radiation dose “with no threshold value,” a risk thus being associated even at low doses. Moreover, the LNT model has been confirmed by epidemiological studies and is the basis of radiological protection.

The cause of the high incidence of thyroid cancer after the Chernobyl nuclear accident was formally recognized as having been due to exposure to radioactive iodine around ten years after the accident occurred. This is also substantiated by Japanese “specialists” led by Dr. Yamashita Shunichi, who published a paper ⁽¹⁾ stating that thyroid cancer was seen in children born before the accident, but not in children born after the accident, by which time the radioactive iodine would have disappeared. Nevertheless, Dr. Yamashita and other researchers at Fukushima Medical University (FMU) say that the high incidence of the cancer is not due to exposure to radiation but is the result of high rates of detection using highly sensitive ultrasonography. Why was exposure to radioactive iodine recognized as the cause at Chernobyl but not at Fukushima? https://cnic.jp/english/?p=9028

Indeed, if the leaks from Chernobyl are recognised as causing child cancers why are those much documented leaks from the nuclear recycling at Sellafield in Cumbria, those from Hunterston B in Ayrshire and those from the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarines on the Clyde, not?

And Scottish Labour?

Sarwar says nuclear veto ‘holding Scotland back’ – https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2025/02/sarwar-says-nuclear-veto-holding-scotland-back/

Our earlier piece on this:

Global thyroid cancer ‘surge’ – Scottish Labour policy challenged as new research reviewing more than 2 000 studies finds increased risk of thyroid cancer for those living near nuclear power plants