Deadly
Ethos in Belarus Came to Fukushima!
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.
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