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Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine to conduct radiation measurements and research with Russian institute

by Yota Baba, Staff Writer

On September 7, Hiroshima University’s Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine (RIRBM), located in Minami Ward, Hiroshima, concluded an international exchange agreement with Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center (FMBC) in Moscow, Russia. Under this agreement, which focuses on measuring levels of radiation emitted in nuclear power plant accidents, the two institutes will pursue joint research and exchanges of teaching staff and students.

The written agreements were exchanged at Hiroshima University’s Kasumi Campus by Shinya Matsuura, the director of RIRBM, and Alexander Samoylov, the director general of FMBC. Researchers from RIRBM and FMBC have worked together in preparing the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effect of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) report on the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) nuclear power plant, run by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), and the agreement seeks to expand this cooperation between researchers by undertaking exchange activities between the two organizations.

More specifically, based on the lessons obtained from the nuclear accidents at Fukushima and Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union, the planned research will study how to promptly conduct measurements of radiation doses when nuclear power plant accidents occur, and will make suggestions on how to minimize the damage and effects of such accidents. The research will also include reevaluating the radiation levels released by the atomic bombs.

RIRBM’s agreement with FMBC is the 18th agreement it has made with a foreign university or research institute.

(Originally published on September 8, 2017)

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