[ RadSafe ] Two million Fukushima residents to undergo radiationhealth checks

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

There is a fair chance that this program will provide enough high (ish)
quality data about dose and short and long term outcomes as to settle
the question about the validity of LNT once and for all.  

It is also possible that the closer medical attention will find
non-radiation related problems earlier, and treat them when they are
less expensive, and result in longer life spans for the people involved.
I shouldn't be surprised if the initial screening catches thousands of
pre-existing cancers.

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Subject: [ RadSafe ] Two million Fukushima residents to undergo
radiationhealth 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-be
bes-
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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