IPPNW 核戦争防止世界国際医師会議がWHO批判

「原子力安全閣僚会議」を経てWHOやIAEAのうごきにますます注目していかなければなりません。5月のWHO報告が甘過ぎるというドイツ医師からの警告を伝える記事です。

"WHO downplayed health effect of nuclear crisis on Fukushima residents:German physician
,a member of IPPNW＝International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
IPPNW=核戦争防止国際医師会議
　

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東京電力福島第１原発の事故に関連して、世界保健機関（ＷＨＯ）が今年５月に発表した住民の推定被ばく線量に関する報告書について、核戦争防止を訴える国際団体で、ノーベル平和賞を受賞した「核戦争防止国際医師会議（ＩＰＰＮＷ）」の医師が事故の健康への影響を軽く見積もっていると批判する論文をまとめた。論文は、原子力の平和利用を推進する国際原子力機関（ＩＡＥＡ）の関係者らが報告書を作成したためと指摘し、独立した科学的評価の必要性を訴えている。
　ＷＨＯの報告書は、原発に近い福島県浪江町と飯舘村でも全身の被ばくは最大５０ミリシーベルトで、発がんリスクが高まるとされる１００ミリシーベルトを超えた地域はなかったと分析した。
　これに対し、ドイツのアレックス・ローゼン医師（小児科、医学博士）は論文で、報告書が推定している放射性物質の放出量は、各国の研究機関の算定値より大幅に少ないと指摘。また、報告書は事故から数日以内に避難した２０キロ圏内の住民の被ばくは考慮していないが、避難前や避難中に被ばくした恐れがあると疑問を唱えた。
　論文は「報告書はがんなど放射性物質で引き起こされる疾病に罹患（りかん）する危険性は、被ばく線量に比例して高まるという重要情報を除外し、安全性を示そうとしているようだ」と批判した。（2012/12/15-14:32）

BERLIN — A German doctor and member of a Nobel Peace Prize-winning physicians' group has criticized a World Health Organization report on the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe for underestimating its impact on human health.

In a research paper, Alex Rosen said the WHO report, published in May this year on estimated radiation doses received by residents near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, was compiled mainly by officials related to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which promotes the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes.

Rosen, a member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, called for an independent assessment based on solid scientific methodology that would examine the health impacts from radioactive fallout released after the Fukushima No. 1 complex suffered three core meltdowns in March 2011.

The WHO report put the maximum whole-body radiation dose per person in the first four months of the crisis at 50 millisieverts, even in two municipalities very close to the plant, the town of Namie and the village of Iitate. It also estimated that no area experienced doses in excess of 100 millisieverts.

The risk of developing cancer is believed to substantially increase if the annual dose exceeds 100 millisieverts.

Rosen noted that the WHO's estimate on the amount of radioactive fallout emitted from the plant's destroyed reactors was significantly lower than projections provided by research institutes in many other countries.

The WHO report also failed to take into account the radiation exposure of people living within 20 km of the No. 1 plant and who were evacuated in the first few days of the calamity, after the area was designated a no-go zone, Rosen said, pointing to the possibility that these residents may have received high doses before or during their evacuation.

The report "seems to suggest a certain safety while omitting the important information that the risk of developing cancer and other radiation-induced diseases increases proportionally to the amount of radioactive exposure," Rosen, a pediatrician, said.

The most flawed aspect of the WHO report is "its apparent lack of neutrality," he said.

Rosen further asserted that the report reflects an effort to downplay the effects of the disaster, as it was compiled chiefly by IAEA staff and members of nuclear regulatory bodies that were closely colluding with Japan's nuclear power industry.

"It is unclear why a report written mainly by the IAEA and collaborating nuclear institutions would need to be published in the name of the WHO, if not to provide an unsuspicious cover" for the true radiation levels Fukushima residents were exposed to, Rosen argued.

Last month, the German branch of the international physicians' group sent a letter to WHO Director General Margaret Chan, calling for a substantial expansion of medical research on the health effects of the Fukushima disaster. The branch also sought the early establishment of a comprehensive registry of residents in Fukushima who are estimated to have been exposed to radiation of more than 1 millisievert following the triple meltdowns.

A WHO official said the organization is as yet unable to respond to Rosen's research paper or the German branch's letter because it is still examining the documents.

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, established in December 1980 and headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. The group has branches in 62 countries and regions worldwide, including Japan.

ドイツIPNNW医師が警告　首都圏は汚染されている　2012年11月29日

「重要なのは福島県以外にも同等の放射能汚染が広がっている場所があるということです」

"Cesium-137 deposition and contamination of Japanese soils due to the Fukushima nuclear accident"
im Fachmagazin „Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States f America" (S. 19532)
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/49/19530.full.pdf+html?sid=15ee6e2e-f543-4da3...

"Xenon-133 and caesium-137 releases into the atmosphere from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant: determination of the source term, atmospheric dispersion, and deposition"
im Fachmagazin "Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics" (S. 2339)
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/2313/2012/acp-12-2313-2012.pdf

また避難の必要な四県は福島、宮城、栃木、茨城で、
5.000Bq/kgの土壌汚染が報告されていることによる：
http://www.fukushima-