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Quote from the report: “no adverse health effects among Fukushima residents have been documented that could be directly attributed to radiation exposure from the accident”

Which means that possibly:

1)there were adverse health effects among Fukushima residents that were not documented. 2)there were adverse health effects that could not be directly attributed to radiation exposure from the accident. 3)adverse health effects have not manifested themselves yet

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Or, that any impact is too small to measure, and so not meaningful.

Asbestos was being used from the 1800's and I can see that all of a sudden there's plenty of impact that has been caused by it. Fukushima was 10 years ago, come back again in another 10 years time, then another and see what the damage is.

The same three things apply to basically everything.

For a hyperbolic example, no adverse health effects have been documented that could be directly attributed to people reading the post you made. All three of your possibilities would still apply.

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