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Fukushima disaster: Radiation levels posing cancer risks on fourth anniversary of triple nuclear meltdown | 11 March 2015 | Four years ago today Japan was hit with a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and massive tsunami, triggering a[n ongoing] crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The triple nuclear meltdown was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. About 120,000 people still cannot return their homes because of high radiation levels, but the issue of long-term health implications like cancer are causing the greatest concern and controversy in Japan. Before the disaster, there was just one to two cases of thyroid cancers in a million Japanese children but now Fukushima has more than 100 confirmed or suspected cases, having tested about 300,000 children.