As of January last year a report out of TEPCO and the various parties involved in decommissioning documents that 15 workers from Fukushima Daiichi have developed cancer. These cancers are considered sufficiently linked to their work at the plant during the initial disaster and the subsequent effort to manage the site. Of these, 8 workers have developed leukemia, 5 workers have developed malignant lymphoma, and 2 workers have multiple myeloma.
As for children exposed to radiation in 2011 the total number who have since been diagnosed with thyroid cancer has reached 185, a prefectural investigative commission announced at a March 5 2018 meeting.