The March 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant was the worst since Chernobyl in 1986. Despite the severity of the meltdown, Japan quickly handled evacuations in a 20 kilometer radius of the plant, possibly decreasing the cancer risk to some extent. However, about 600 deaths resulted from the evacuation process itself. Experts have estimated that radiation from the disaster will result in approximately 130 deaths, along with 180 cases of cancer. The United Nations Science Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation predicted that there would be no serious resulting health consequences for the public, mostly because the majority of radioactive material was deposited in the ocean; only 19% of the material settled on land, but it still created a "dead zone" of several hundred kilometers.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/july/fukushima-health-impacts-071712.html
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