Cancer case linked to Fukushima FUKUSHIMA: Japan's health ministry has for the first time confirmed that leukaemia found in a worker Tokyo at Electric Power's Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant is a result of the March 2011 atomic disaster, national broad caster NHK said. The finding, report- ing without attribution by NHK, comes as Tokyo Electric has sought to underscore progress cleaning up containing the worst nuclear dis aster in decades. A Tepco spokesman declined to comment on the report. No one at the health ministry was immediately available.