Update from Tokyo on Japanese reactions to govt radiation reports

[flamingdem]

Run time: 16:21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc_SvuXBqDA   Posted on YouTube: April 29, 2011 By YouTube Member: playbacklapompe Views on YouTube: 507   Posted on DU: April 29, 2011 By DU Member: flamingdem Views on DU: 550

 
Frenchman in Tokyo discusses various issues in Japan developing as a result of the Fukushima disaster.

[proverbialwisdom]

1. ESSENTIAL RELATED READING.

I'm unable to watch the video, but thank you for the thread.

ARTICLE 1:
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/85736.html

OPINION: How to minimize consequences of the Fukushima catastrophe

By Alexey V. Yablokov
MOSCOW, April 15, Kyodo

The analysis of the health impact of radioactive land contamination by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, made by Professor Chris Busby (the European Committee of Radiation Risk) based on official Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology data, has shown that over the next 50 years it would be possible to have around 400,000 additional cancer patients within a 200-kilometer radius of the plant.

This number can be lower and can be even higher, depending on strategies to minimize the consequences. Underestimation is more dangerous for the people and for the country than overestimation...

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AUTHOR: http://www.amazon.com/Chernobyl-Consequences-Catastrophe-Environment-ebook/dp/B004X8DOQC/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1303869671&sr=8-2
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Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment
Alexey Yablokov (Author), Vassily Nesterenko (Author), Alexey Nesterenko (Author), Janette Sherman-Nevinger (Editor), Dmitry Grodzinsky (Foreword)


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ARTICLE 2:
Published on Friday, April 29, 2011 by Institute for Policy Studies

Japan's Nuclear Catastrophe Leaves Little to Celebrate on Children's Day

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/29-7?print

A recent government decision callously put thousands of kids in harm's way.
by Robert Alvarez

May 5 is Children’s Day, a Japanese national holiday that celebrates the happiness of childhood.

This year, it will fall under a dark, radioactive shadow.

Japanese children in the path of radioactive plumes from the crippled nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi power station are likely to suffer health problems that a recent government action will only exacerbate.

On April 19, the Japanese government sharply ramped up its radiation exposure limit to 2,000 millirem per year (20 mSv/y) for schools and playgrounds in Fukushima prefecture. Japanese children are now permitted to be exposed to an hourly dose rate 165 times above normal background radiation and 133 times more than levels the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows for the American public. Japanese school children will be allowed to be exposed to same level recommended by the International Commission on Radiation Protection for nuclear workers. Unlike workers, however, children won’t have a choice as to whether they can be so exposed.

This decision callously puts thousands of children in harm's way...

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ARTICLE 3:

http://counterpunch.org/nader04272011.html

April 27, 2011

Concealing the Consequences

Chernobyl 25 Years Later

By RALPH NADER

The disaster at Chernobyl's reactor on April 26, 1986 continues to expose humans, flora and fauna to radioactive lethality especially in, but not restricted to, Ukraine and Belarus. Western countries continue to reflect an under-estimation of casualties by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).