[ RadSafe ] Two million Fukushima residents to undergo radiation health checks

[Doug Aitken]

Might help to give a "tinyURL" version of the Le Monde article!

Here is is!
http://tinyurl.com/6y4uu3k

Unfortunately, this article does not "plant" Busby, as you stated, but
continues to raise the possibility of a link between DU and the
malformations. Although it does state that the doctors in Fallujah hospitals
that have directly witnessed the large increase in malformed babies have
refused to place the blame on any DU, but rather state that they could be
due to multiple factors, including air pollution, radiation, chemical
pollutants, medications taken during the pregnancy, malnutrition or stress
on the mother.

All of these known causes of malformations make it pretty difficult to place
the blame on DU, as Busby and others have done (that nice term
"confounders".....). 

The Le Monde article goes on to state that Busby has an upcoming article in
the Lancet where he claims to have found traces of enriched uranium in
samples of hair, air, earth and water......  (and quotes a journalist
specializing in military matters that the use of enriched uranium in weapons
is ridiculous).

Regards
Doug

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Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:54 AM
To: 'The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List'
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Two million Fukushima residents to undergo radiation
health checks

This was sent to activist lists - sounds very costly and like substantial
overkill, but certainly would provide a lot of good data to show that the
alarmists are off base.  By the way, one of our resident alarmists claimed
to have submitted a scientific article to the prestigious UK medical journal
"The Lancet", but they have no record of any paper having been submitted by
Christopher Busby.  I wonder if that is because "The Lancet" is
internationally known for rigorously reviewing submissions.

 

The claim of the Lancet article is in Le Monde, in this article that Busby
got planted about his ongoing false claims concerning depleted uranium in
Fallujah.

  

http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2011/06/10/a-fallouja-les-bebes-
monstres-soulevent-des-questions-sur-les-armes-americaines-utilisees-en-2004
_1534674_3218.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8585961/Two-million-Fuk
ushima-residents-to-undergo-radiation-health-checks.html


Two million Fukushima residents to undergo radiation health checks


More than two million residents living in the region surrounding Japan's
damaged nuclear power plant will undergo longterm health checks starting
from this month.


By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo

7:13AM BST 20 Jun 2011

The health of residents in Fukushima prefecture in northeast Japan will be
monitored over the next 30 years in order to ease growing concerns
surrounding radiation contamination.

The health checks will start at the end of the month, focusing firstly on
28,000 residents in the three communities currently nearest to the power
plant - Iitake village, Kawamata and Namie - before expanding across the
region.

Plans for the health checks were confirmed at a weekend meeting by Fukushima
prefectural government authorities in response to growing local concern
surrounding the health implications of the on-going nuclear crisis.

"Everyone is included in this and will be tested over a long-term period,
for 30 years or longer," a spokesman for Fukushima prefectural government
told the Telegraph. "We will start with 28,000 residents, looking at their
daily behavioural patterns to determine risks levels."

The project is believed to be unprecedented in terms of the number of
residents involved and the predicted time span of three decades during which
their health will be monitored.

Residents are expected to receive questionnaires to determine the degree of
their contamination risks, with subsequent tests including examinations for
internal radiation contamination.

The findings will be stored on a database created by Fukushima Medical
University in order to monitor the longterm potential effects of radiation
exposure in the region.

Residents in the Fukushima region have expressed growing concern surrounding
the possible longterm health risks, in particular for children, triggered by
the on-going nuclear power plant crisis.

Officials are continuing to work around the clock to regain control at
Fukushima nuclear power plant after the tsunami knocked out crucial cooling
functions, leading to three reactor meltdowns and radiation leaks into the
air, soil and sea.

The new health plan was confirmed just days after the authorities also
announced that 34,000 schoolchildren in the region aged between four and 15
will be given radiation dosimetres to hang around their necks in order to
monitor their exposure.

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