Former Mayor of a town that Hosted Fukushima Daiichi Asks the world for Hellp at UN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqseXWOQLbE
Mr. Katsutaka Idogawa was a mayor of Futaba town that hosted crippled Fukushima nuclear plant at the time of the accident.  He was one of many who exposed to very high dose of ionizing radiation during his help of residents to evacuate when reactor 1 exploded on 12/3/13.  Since then he lost his hair and has been having nose bleeding, headaches, sore throat and suffering of fatigue for some time.  Also he developed a cyst in his throat as well.   (These are radiation related symptoms according to Hiroshima Doctor Hida　who treated thousands of Hiroshima bomb victims.)
Japanese government hasn’t taken any responsibility to protect Fukushima children, but also hasn’t done anything to help adults who were exposed to very high dose of ionizing radiation and left them to look after by themselves. 
He was pro nuclear and a supporter to welcome reactor 5 & 6 for the town’s economic growth.  Now he changed his view completely on nuclear power and realized what’s the most important thing in our life; it’s not an economic growth, it’s a protection of human life that need to come first.  The rest of Fukushima governors didn’t agree with his view and asked him to resign.  He made a decision to resign on Jan. 23 this year.  However he commented in the other video that he would like to keep working on asking for responsibilities to Tepco and the government on behalf of the rest of Fukushima citizens.  I was impressed with his speech and action.  We all make mistakes in our life but once we learn it we can live differently whatever our physical condition would be.  There are so much sufferings and confusions in Fukushima.  There is no best way for everybody after nuclear disaster.  I hope his good spirit will encourage the others to act from their heart.

*New atomic-bomb survivor study

http://www.rrjournal.org/doi/pdf/10.1667/RR2629.1
The Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF), and its predecessor the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC), has conducted a mortality study since 1950 …….
The most important finding regarding the late effects of A-bomb radiation exposure on mortality is an increased risk of cancer mortality throughout life ….
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*Low-Dose Radiation ☢ NEW A-Bomb Study

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VAncqK6bl0  
New Goddard’s Journal: Landmark study presents “strongest evidence to date that cancer risk not only exists at low doses of radiation, but may be even greater per unit of dose than at higher doses”.  The study also demonstrates that ionized radiation is associated with non cancer diseases involving circulatory and digestive systems……..

Deadly Ethos in Belarus Came to Fukushima!

Deadly Ethos in Belarus Came to Fukushima!

(Source) http://savekidsjapan.blogspot.jp/2013/01/blog-post_8310.html　

Fukushima Ethos (http://ethos-fukushima.blogspot.jp/) , in which residents are encouraged to live resourcefully in contaminated areas, is a dangerous program.  This program seems to be solely taking an advantage of Fukushima residents who do not want to be relocated and at the same time, sacrificing health of the residents, especially children.  In ETHOS Belarus, experts advised people to voluntarily measure radiation to reduce radiation levels, and they saw some success.  Also doctors cooperated measuring residents’ internal exposure using whole body counters (WBC) and recorded some decrease in their bodies.

However, while these figures were measured and recorded for studies of this program, the number of children with ill-health increased dramatically, sometimes more than 10 times, after years¹⁹ in Belarus.  As for this issue, former WHO advisor Michel Fernex explained in the following video, which I would recommend strongly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_oKtjnh52c&feature=yout...

This Belarus ETHOS project has been conducted by the director of CEPN, Mr. Jacque Lochard（http://www.oecd-nea.org/press/press-kits/lochard.pdf）, the director of a NGO called CEPN.  Amazingly, the members of CEPN are from four nuclear stakeholders- EDF, IRSN, CEA, AREVA (http://www.cepn.asso.fr/spip.php?lang=en.).   Mr. Lochard was invited to give a presentation on risk of low level radiation, along with his colleague, Terry Schnider from CEPN and IRPA, at the Japanese Cabinet Office in November 2011. http://www.cas.go/jp/jp/genpatsujiko/info/twg/dai5/siryou2.pdf.  (The Cabinet Office presentation was deleted now.)

However, it is interesting to mention that during the three years a profound change with regard to radiological protection took place and several interesting lessons can be drawn.”  By reading this, we can see that ETHOS project does not concentrate on human health, which is supposed to be the top priority more than anything else.

As a matter of fact, Mr. Lochard was involved in the IAEA Chernobyl Project in 1990-1991, which concluded that there was no direct health damages observed caused by radiation.  　 http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub894_web.pdf

Mr. Jacque Lochard is an economist.  He conducted cost benefit analysis on the evaluation for relocation in this IAEA Chernobyl Project.  While the former Soviet Union scholars demanded the residents relocation above 1mSv/year, and experts from ICRP and WHO for above 5mSv/yr, Mr. Lochard insisted that it could be up to 100mSv considering the cost.  Since Mr. Lochard suggested such an unbelievable figure, scientists made the compromise to 5mSv.  In his report, there was no mentioning about children and pregnant women.

Mr. Lochard has been visiting Fukushima for promoting ETHOS Fukushima along with the Japanese counterpart, Ms. Ryoko Ando, the director of ETHOS Fukushima, another NGO.  In November 2011, before the startup of Fukushima ETHOS, Japanese government held a meeting at the Cabinet Office inviting Mr. Lochard. 

Mr. Lochard sent a letter to Ms. Ryoko Ando, the director of Fukushima ETHOS and he said, “The decision about the 20 mSv is a good news. This will allow many people to return to their home soon. “http://ethos-fukushima.blogspot.jp/2012_01_01_archive.html

However, when the Japanese government came up with 20mSv relocation standard, countless number of Japanese mothers opposed to it and gathered around the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.  However, the Japanese government totally ignored these voices.

In this way, the same people from ETHOS project have been working both in Chernobyl and in Fukushima.  While they try to appear to be helping those who cannot relocate by themselves under NGO organization CEPN (the members are French EDF, IRSN, CEA, AREVA ), in reality, this program has been backed up by international nuclear lobby such as IAEA, ICRP, UNSCEAR , IRPA and nuclear power states including Japan!

In Chernobyl already, millions of residents and children have been suffering.  And now in Japan, health damages have been observed including the increase of death rate.  This is the world scandal of the centuries and I would like to let the citizens of the world to be aware of this horrendous facts.