After the ICRP regulation set
up 1mSv/y as a permissible level in 1990, Japan had been applying 1mSv/y as the
legal limit of ionizing radiation dose for normal citizens and 20mSv/y for
nuclear power workers in Japan.
The atmospheric dose of
radiation in Japan was 0.35-0.50mSv/y depending on the locations before the
Fukushima disaster. Therefore, this limit was at odds with the level the
nuclear industries had set. In fact, it
was higher because of the amounts of ionizing radiation that was released into
the air by nuclear bomb testing and existing nuclear power plants.
1mSv/y has also a special meaning for Hiroshima/Nagasaki
victims, too. They said that victims who were 3.55km away from the epicenter of
the Nagasaki bomb, 3.25km for Hiroshima bomb were supposed to be exposed to
added dose of ionizing radiation of 1 mSv/y.(=0.23uSv/h) because of which
all these victims were able: to receive financial support for the medical cost
of their illnesses and even a certain amount of their living costs, although
this also depended on their other conditions under the Atomic Bomb Survivors’ Relief Law
of 1995.
The Japanese Government recognizes the relationship
between being exposed to added dose of ionizing radiation, “1mSv/y” for
Hiroshima/Nagasaki victims and these illnesses such as:
Malignant tumor,
Leukemia,
Hyperparathyroidism,
Irradiation cataract (age-related cataract),
Radial infarction related to radiation,
Hypothyroidism related to radiation,
Chronic hepatitis,
Cirrhosis related to radiation.
*Added dose of ionizing radiation “1mSv/y”=0.23uSv/h
http://www.env.go.jp/press/file_view.php?serial=18437&hou_id=14327
This law had been kept secret
from the citizens until one of the government officials was hammered with lots
of questions by Mrs. Kuniko Tanioka, a member of the House of Councilors
sometime last year. The Government officials and all the members of
Parliament in Fukushima prefecture had known about this all along and were
trying to hide this law from the citizens, since the Fukushima disaster. I’m sure the cover up is to avoid
the high cost of compensation and mitigate their legal liability.
The Japanese government has not
taken sufficient responsibilities to support victims of the Fukushima nuclear
disaster. They kept saying "it is
safe", whilst they have been allowing residents to stay in an area with up
to 20kmSv/y with even hotter spots in many different places. The government has been realizing that the
decontamination is not working well enough to reduce the level of ionizing
radiation contamination in the prefecture.
Now the Japanese Government
want to apply UNSCEAR`s recent increased allowable recommendations to 100mSv/y
(saying this is now safe.), thereby raising the permissible level of ionizing
radiation in order for them to be allowed to encourage the evacuees to return
to their home.
*Frightening Report from the UNSEAR (The
United nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation ＵＮSEAR-国連科学委員会による、恐るべき報告 http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/frightening-report-from-unsear-united.html
*Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato is asking for
the legal limit of a dose of ionizing radiation in Fukushima to be higher http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/fukushima-governor-yuhei-sato-is-asking.html
*New Nuclear Regulation Authority Decides on 500uSv/hour
as Future Evacuation Standard. 500マイクロシーベルトで避難決定 規制委が基準: 原発事故時、福島の実測値を根拠に http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/new-nuclear-regulation-authority.html
As the ionizing radiation has
been spreading throughout the larger area of the East and Kanto areas, the
importance of keeping the 1mSv/y regulation is an issue for many effected
people in those areas.
There is a group of people
including a conscientious member of the House of Councilors, radiation
specialists, doctors who are experienced with the Chernobyl children and
volunteers getting together to share and discuss how to fight against the
government’s policy (especially to evacuate children out of Fukushima
prefecture). This group is very determined to keep fighting and would really
appreciate support from outside Japan.
*Forum for Health Damage Prevention Assistance Act and
Defending of 1mSv/y Regulation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiGqpeHWf74
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