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When was the last time Japan cared about its victims?
Japanese government has adopted overly optimistic views of radiation risks and has conducted only limited health checks after the core meltdowns at multiple reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, said Anand Grover, a UN special rapporteur on the right to health, who is charged with investigating Japan’s handling of the health risks from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
- More than 2 million people lived in the Fukushima area surrounding the power plant, but only a quarter of them have been tested for radiation effects so far.
- The U.N. official said the health tests should cover “all radiation-affected zones” because the impact of radiation affected large areas far beyond Fukushima’s borders.
- “The scope of the survey is unfortunately narrow as they draw on the limited lessons from the Chernobyl accident and ignore epidemiological studies that point to cancer as well as other diseases in low-dosage radiation,” Grover said.
- According to some studies there’s no clear evidence that radiation exposures of up to 100 millisieverts per year pose higher cancer risks, he said. “But that is controversial. And there are a lot of studies which indicate otherwise. The government need not say which is right. The government has to err on the side of caution and be inclusive,” he said.
- “They draw on the limited lessons from the Chernobyl accident and ignore epidemiological studies that point to cancer as well as other diseases in low-dosage radiation,” Grover said.
- The cumulative radiation exposure from Fukushima in towns around the disaster stricken power plant was between 43 and 122 millisieverts, according to a report by World Health Organization (WHO), which “leaked” to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper over the weekend.
Korea
South Korean nuclear regulators have reportedly discovered about a thousand more fake parts supplied for their nuclear plants with bogus quality certificates.
- Earlier this month, eight companies were found to have submitted 60 fake certificates that covered more than 7,000 parts mostly used in the two reactors that were shut, said a report.
- S. Korean government is planning an additional 11 nuclear reactors, to add to its existing fleet of 23, reports said.
- About 12,500 tons of nuclear waste filled more than 70 percent of the country’s storage capacity at reactors, as of June 2012.
- S. Korea’s four nuclear power plant complexes, which provide onsite storage facility for spent fuel and other radioactive waste, will run out of waste storage space by as early as 2016, said a report.
- South Korea is slightly larger than Indiana, and has a population of more than 50 million.
- More than half of South Korea’s population, and about 1/3 of a million international residents, live in the Seoul metropolitan area.
See also
- S. Korea: Nuclear Waste Storage Facility Reaching Full Capacity Posted on November 20, 2012
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