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1. Shard Calculation

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Response:

Calculated Shard: 84 (from laksa037)

2. Crawled Status Check

Query:

curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa084.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/world/asia/japan-fukushima-nuclear-cancer.html\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/world/asia/japan-fukushima-nuclear-cancer.html\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/03\/world\/asia\/japan-fukushima-nuclear-cancer.html","crawl_time":1772867958,"first_indexed_time":1756878772,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,nytimes!www,\/2025\/09\/03\/world\/asia\/japan-fukushima-nuclear-cancer.html s443","src_root_hash":"4566504020376537684","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Years After Japan’s Nuclear Disaster, People With Cancer Seek Answers - The New York Times","meta_descriptions":["A survey has found hundreds of thyroid tumors, but Japanese officials say they are unrelated to the Fukushima meltdowns. Now they face a lawsuit."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Advertisement\nSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\nA survey has found hundreds of thyroid tumors, but Japanese officials say they are unrelated to the Fukushima meltdowns. Now they face a lawsuit.\nThis woman was a middle schooler in 2011 when the Fukushima nuclear meltdown occurred, about 40 miles from her home. She was diagnosed with thyroid cancer a few years later.\nCredit...\nKo Sasaki for The New York Times\nSept. 3, 2025\nShe was in middle school in March 2011, when\nthree reactors melted down\nat the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant about 40 miles from her home in northern Japan. Living outside the evacuation zone, she continued to go about her life, shopping and cycling to school.\nFour years later, a screening found a malignant tumor in her thyroid, a gland in the neck that is known to be vulnerable to radioactive particles released during a nuclear accident. But when she got the diagnosis, a doctor told her immediately that the growth was unrelated to the disaster.\nShe wondered how the doctor could judge that without making further checks. (The young woman, now in her 20s, asked that her name not be used because she has faced intense social pressure not to speak out.)\nSubscribe to The Times\nto read as many articles as you like.\nA version of this article appears in print on\nSept. 4, 2025\n, Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: 14 Years After Fukushima, People With Cancer Seek Answers\n.\nOrder Reprints\n|\nToday’s Paper\n|\nSubscribe\nRelated Content\nMore in Asia Pacific\nSovfoto\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images\nvia Former Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium Rebirth Committee\nFirst Run Features\nAirbus\nEditors’ Picks\nJustin Sullivan\/Getty Images\nDenis Reggie\nTrending in The Times\nMPTV Images, via Reuters Connect\nKenny Holston\/The New York Times\nMatteo Prandoni\/BFA.com\nChristopher Neundorf\/EPA, via Shutterstock\nAndrew Digby\/Dept. of Conservation, New Zealand, via Associated Press\nArash Khamooshi for The New York Times\nDoug Mills\/The New York Times\n-\/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images\nLindsey Whitaker\nErik Carter\nAdvertisement\nSKIP ADVERTISEMENT","attrs_markdown":"[Skip to content](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/03\/world\/asia\/japan-fukushima-nuclear-cancer.html#site-content)[Skip to site index](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/03\/world\/asia\/japan-fukushima-nuclear-cancer.html#site-index)\n\nSearch & Section Navigation\n\nSection Navigation\n\nSearch\n\n[Asia Pacific](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/world\/asia)\n\n[Log in](https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fsubscription%2Fonboarding-offer%3FcampaignId%3D7JFJX%26EXIT_URI%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2025%252F09%252F03%252Fworld%252Fasia%252Fjapan-fukushima-nuclear-cancer.html&asset=masthead)\n\nSaturday, March 7, 2026\n\n[Today’s Paper](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/todayspaper)\n\n[Asia Pacific](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/world\/asia)\\|Fourteen Years After Japan’s Nuclear Disaster, People With Cancer Seek Answers\n\nhttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/03\/world\/asia\/japan-fukushima-nuclear-cancer.html\n\n- Share full article\n- 58\n\nAdvertisement\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/03\/world\/asia\/japan-fukushima-nuclear-cancer.html#after-top)\n\nSupported by\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/03\/world\/asia\/japan-fukushima-nuclear-cancer.html#after-sponsor)\n# Fourteen Years After Japan’s Nuclear Disaster, People With Cancer Seek Answers\nA survey has found hundreds of thyroid tumors, but Japanese officials say they are unrelated to the Fukushima meltdowns. Now they face a lawsuit.\n\n- Share full article\n- 58\n\n![A photo of a woman seated outdoors, wearing an overcoat. Only part of her face is visible.](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/09\/03\/multimedia\/03int-japan-nuclear-cancer-top\/03int-japan-nuclear-cancer-top-articleLarge-v2.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nThis woman was a middle schooler in 2011 when the Fukushima nuclear meltdown occurred, about 40 miles from her home. She was diagnosed with thyroid cancer a few years later.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times\n\n[![Martin Fackler](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/12\/05\/reader-center\/author-martin-fackler\/author-martin-fackler-thumbLarge.png)](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/martin-fackler)\n\nBy [Martin Fackler](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/martin-fackler)\n\nReporting from Koriyama, Japan\n\nSept. 3, 2025\n\n[Leer en español](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/es\/2025\/09\/04\/espanol\/mundo\/accidente-nuclear-japon-cancer.html \"Read in Spanish\")\n\nShe was in middle school in March 2011, when [three reactors melted down](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/10\/world\/asia\/critics-say-japan-ignored-warnings-of-nuclear-disaster.html) at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant about 40 miles from her home in northern Japan. Living outside the evacuation zone, she continued to go about her life, shopping and cycling to school.\n\nFour years later, a screening found a malignant tumor in her thyroid, a gland in the neck that is known to be vulnerable to radioactive particles released during a nuclear accident. But when she got the diagnosis, a doctor told her immediately that the growth was unrelated to the disaster.\n\nShe wondered how the doctor could judge that without making further checks. 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Now they face a lawsuit.\n\n![A photo of a woman seated outdoors, wearing an overcoat. Only part of her face is visible.](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/09\/03\/multimedia\/03int-japan-nuclear-cancer-top\/03int-japan-nuclear-cancer-top-articleLarge-v2.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nThis woman was a middle schooler in 2011 when the Fukushima nuclear meltdown occurred, about 40 miles from her home. She was diagnosed with thyroid cancer a few years later.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times\n\nSept. 3, 2025\n\nShe was in middle school in March 2011, when [three reactors melted down](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/10\/world\/asia\/critics-say-japan-ignored-warnings-of-nuclear-disaster.html) at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant about 40 miles from her home in northern Japan. Living outside the evacuation zone, she continued to go about her life, shopping and cycling to school.\n\nFour years later, a screening found a malignant tumor in her thyroid, a gland in the neck that is known to be vulnerable to radioactive particles released during a nuclear accident. But when she got the diagnosis, a doctor told her immediately that the growth was unrelated to the disaster.\n\nShe wondered how the doctor could judge that without making further checks. (The young woman, now in her 20s, asked that her name not be used because she has faced intense social pressure not to speak out.)\n\n[Subscribe to The Times](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/subscription?campaignId=8WXW7) to read as many articles as you like.\n\nA version of this article appears in print on Sept. 4, 2025, Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: 14 Years After Fukushima, People With Cancer Seek Answers. 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She was diagnosed with thyroid cancer a few years later.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times [![Martin Fackler](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/12/05/reader-center/author-martin-fackler/author-martin-fackler-thumbLarge.png)](https://www.nytimes.com/by/martin-fackler) By [Martin Fackler](https://www.nytimes.com/by/martin-fackler) Reporting from Koriyama, Japan Sept. 3, 2025 [Leer en español](https://www.nytimes.com/es/2025/09/04/espanol/mundo/accidente-nuclear-japon-cancer.html "Read in Spanish") She was in middle school in March 2011, when [three reactors melted down](https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/world/asia/critics-say-japan-ignored-warnings-of-nuclear-disaster.html) at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant about 40 miles from her home in northern Japan. Living outside the evacuation zone, she continued to go about her life, shopping and cycling to school. 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Kennedy Jr. at their private wedding ceremony on Sept. 21, 1996. 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The island is known for lacking the kinds of predators that threaten the parrots. ](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/05/multimedia/05xp-kakapos-gtpm/05xp-kakapos-gtpm-square640.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=350) Andrew Digby/Dept. of Conservation, New Zealand, via Associated Press - ![There are plenty of reasons for investors to avoid acting hastily over the conflict in the Persian Gulf.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/08/multimedia/05biz-strategies-iran-hbzw/05biz-strategies-iran-hbzw-square640.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=350) Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times - ![President Trump attempted to extinguish the idea that Israel forced the United States to enter a war with Iran.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/03/multimedia/03dc-trump-maga-qgmb/03dc-trump-maga-qgmb-square640.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=350) Doug Mills/The New York Times - ![Fanny Blankers-Koen crossing the finish line of the 200-meter event in London at the 1948 Olympic Games.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/06/multimedia/06WHM-Blankers-Obit-01-mcfw/06WHM-Blankers-Obit-01-mcfw-square640.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=350) \-/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images - ![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/06/arts/Tornado-Thumb2/Tornado-Thumb2-square640.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=350) Lindsey Whitaker - ![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/05/opinion/05steinberger/05steinberger-square640-v3.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=350) Erik Carter Advertisement [SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/world/asia/japan-fukushima-nuclear-cancer.html#after-bottom)
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