IPPNW doctors make recommendations in connection with nuclear power plant accident
Sep. 3, 2012
by Kohei Okata, Staff Writer
On August 29, a press conference was held at the Diet Building in Tokyo by a group of doctors who attended the World Congress of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which recently took place in Hiroshima. The doctors made recommendations with regard to the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) nuclear power plant, suggesting that support measures be implemented promptly for children whose level of radiation exposure exceeds one millisievert per year. The recommendations will be submitted to the Japanese government in the near future.
The recommendations stress that a support system should be put in place that can provide housing and education in cases where the yearly radiation dose exceeds five millisieverts for the average adult and one millisievert for children and women of child-bearing age. They also advised that a mechanism be created for registering all those whose dose has exceeded one millisievert, and study the incidence of cancer and other illnesses based on this data. The recommendations urge that nuclear power plants be abolished, along with nuclear weapons.
Tilman Ruff, IPPNW co-president from Australia, emphasized that every effort should be made to keep exposure doses from exceeding one millisievert.
Among the participants of the congress, 30 people, from nine nations, visited Fukushima Prefecture on August 28 and exchanged views with doctors at Fukushima Medical University.
(Originally published on August 30, 2012)
On August 29, a press conference was held at the Diet Building in Tokyo by a group of doctors who attended the World Congress of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which recently took place in Hiroshima. The doctors made recommendations with regard to the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) nuclear power plant, suggesting that support measures be implemented promptly for children whose level of radiation exposure exceeds one millisievert per year. The recommendations will be submitted to the Japanese government in the near future.
The recommendations stress that a support system should be put in place that can provide housing and education in cases where the yearly radiation dose exceeds five millisieverts for the average adult and one millisievert for children and women of child-bearing age. They also advised that a mechanism be created for registering all those whose dose has exceeded one millisievert, and study the incidence of cancer and other illnesses based on this data. The recommendations urge that nuclear power plants be abolished, along with nuclear weapons.
Tilman Ruff, IPPNW co-president from Australia, emphasized that every effort should be made to keep exposure doses from exceeding one millisievert.
Among the participants of the congress, 30 people, from nine nations, visited Fukushima Prefecture on August 28 and exchanged views with doctors at Fukushima Medical University.
(Originally published on August 30, 2012)
