Japan riled by WHO's Fukushima cancer warning [View all]

[wtmusic]

Not because the WHO underestimated the effects - because they were overestimated. Seems people living there are less concerned than trust fund brats working for Greenpeace thousands of miles away...



"Japan on Friday insisted warnings by the World Health Organisation of a rise in the risk of cancer for people in Fukushima were overblown, saying the agency was unnecessarily stoking fears.

<>

"Their calculations were made based on the assumption that people continued living inside the evacuation zone and ate banned food. But there are no such people," a ministry official said.

<>

Norio Kanno, mayor of Iitate, a village from which residents have been evacuated because of elevated levels of radiation, expressed frustration. "It's utterly hypothetical," Kanno said in an interview with Japan's national broadcaster NHK. "I'm not seeking underestimation, but I'm very angry at seeing the (WHO) raising fears by overestimating data," Kanno said."

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/japan-riled-by-who-s-fukushima-cancer-warning-337035