原発作業でがん、認めず　原告の請求棄却―札幌地裁

　東京電力福島第１原発事故の収束作業で被ばくし、がんを発症したとして、札幌市の元作業員の男性（６３）が東電など３社に計約６５００万円の損害賠償を求めた訴訟の判決が１３日、札幌地裁であり、高木勝己裁判長（中野琢郎裁判長代読）は原告の請求を棄却した。原告側は控訴する方針。
　高木裁判長は、原告ががんの確定診断を受けたのは業務開始から約１１カ月～１年１０カ月後で、被ばくから発症までの最短期間とされる５年を大幅に下回っていると指摘。「喫煙や飲酒というリスクファクターがあった」として、業務と発がんの因果関係を認めなかった。（2021/05/13-14:15）

A Japanese district court rejected on Thursday a compensation demand by a man who claimed that disaster containment work at the meltdown-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant led him to develop cancer.
   Sapporo District Court in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido rejected a suit filed by the 63-year-old man, who demanded a total of around 65 million yen in damages from Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc. , the operator of the plant, and two other companies.
   The plaintiff argued that he was exposed to radiation during containment work following the triple meltdowns at the plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in March 2011.
   He is expected to appeal the ruling.
   Presiding Judge Katsumi Takagi noted that the former worker was diagnosed with cancer between around 11 months and 22 months after he began work at the plant, far shorter than the five years thought to be needed for radiation exposure to result in cancer.