Thyroid Examination: Order of Full-scale Screening

The Thyroid Examination has been conducted sequentially, starting in areas where ambient dose rates were highest at the time of the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)'s Fukushima Daiichi NPS.

After the first Full-scale Screening, which was the second one after the Initial Screening, notices of the examination have been sent mostly in the same order so that the interval from the Initial Screening would not be prolonged. Since FY2016, the examination for those aged 20 or older has come to be conducted once every five years, but the examination plan is designed so that all targeted people will receive examinations regularly without more than a five-year gap between examinations through age 25.

• Included in this reference material on March 31, 2015
• Updated on December 1, 2017