title: Fukushima's children.
abstract: Nearly 2 years on from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant incident—and as a recent article highlights the continuing after-effects of fallout from the Japan atomic bomb in 1945—Zena Nyakoojo reports on the some of the latest concerns about ionising radiation currently affecting the region.
authors.forename: Zena
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Nyakoojo
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000032:analysis; D062406:Fukushima Nuclear Accident; D006801:Humans; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000032:analysis; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000453:epidemiology*
chemical_list: D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes