About 38,000 Japanese children have already done tests to identify thyroid nodules since March 2011, when an earthquake and tsunami devastated the country's northeast, affecting the Fukushima atomic plant and initiating the largest nuclear disaster in Japan this total, more than 13 600 children (36%) had thyroid nodules, although no one has been diagnosed with cancer. The information was revealed on Monday (27) by broadcaster NHK. According to the station, because of these results, Japan will increase thyroid tests in the northeast of the country to analyze the effects of radiation, after detecting the lymph glands of the small. In the province of Fukushima, which is the Daiichi nuclear plant, severely damaged by the tsunami have been made since the beginning of the tragedy nuclear tests in about 38 000 children under 18 years. Fish in Fukushima have radiation above limit, Butterflies mutants are found after accident. According to NHK, 36% of children in whom the tests were done showed nodules in the thyroid, although none of them was diagnosed cancer. The Fukushima government does not consider it necessary to take additional examinations, although parents have expressed their concern, since the lymph gland can be found in healthy children. Experts have warned that radioactive iodine released from Fukushima Daiichi center after the accident can accumulate in the thyroid glands of children and increase their risk of this type of cancer, as occurred after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl (Ukraine) in 1986. The new tests will be done by the end of March 2013 with about 4,500 children under 18 in three provinces annexed to Fukushima to compare the results with those collected in the province. The government hopes that with the exams is possible not only alleviate the concern of citizens, but detect possible effects on children of the radiation released by the nuclear unit.
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