FUKUSHIMA — Fukushima started ultrasonic thyroid exams Sunday for the prefecture's 360,000 children aged up to 18 as part of efforts to monitor the health conditions of young people amid the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant crisis.
Taking a lesson from the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, in which many children developed thyroid cancer years after the accident, Fukushima Medical University in the city of Fukushima will screen the prefecture's 360,000 youths over the next 29 months to March 2014, officials said.
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