Japan’s plan to make radiation readings come out looking better

Plan to lower radiation readings OK’d JIJI NOV 12, 2013 Japan Times, 12 Nov 13 To facilitate the return of evacuees, the Nuclear Regulation Authority has approved a change in the way radiation doses are monitored around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station that will effectively result in lower readings, but observers warn this could raise public mistrust.

The change calls for basing monitoring on data from dosimeters held by individual residents.

It was proposed by the regulatory commission’s secretariat at its meeting Monday and gained broad-based consensus.

Dosimeter readings tend to be less than half of those using the existing method based on air dose rates, which assume that residents stay outdoors for a total of eight hours a day, according to the NRA Secretariat.

The proposal comes as the government is aiming to lift the evacuation advisory for areas where annual radiation doses are estimated at 20 millisieverts or lower.

The new method is expected to help promote the return of evacuees as well as reduce costs for decontaminating areas tainted by radioactive fallout from the Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant.

But a change in the monitoring method could heighten local residents’ mistrust of the government, observers said…… In the city of Fukushima, Ichiro Kowata, 77, an evacuee from Iitate, called for the government to more fully explain the proposed method change. “Younger people say they can’t trust statements that suddenly declare areas to be safe when they have been called dangerous until now,” he said. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/12/national/plan-to-lower-radiation-readings-okd/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+japantimes+(The+Japan+Times%3A+All+Stories)#.UoPb33Bwo7o

November 13, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, secrets,lies and civil liberties

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[…] 21 November 2103 Posted by Mia (Source) http://www.save-children-from-radiation.org/2013/11/20/to-return-or-not-to-return/ Scientists say that’s suicidal. Anti nuclear activists say no one should be allowed to return to Fukushima until it’s completely safe. What does TEPCO say? It’s under control! Mrs. Morizono, a Fukushima resident, is highly concerned about many hot spots existed around the area. She had to close her after school classes for children because of high radiation. One mother who has a small child joined the NGO group of the ordinary women, united by fear for the future of their chldren and distrust of the government’s actions. *Future for Fukushima evacuees is not certain 福島原発避難者：将来への不安 Those residents in the area more than 50mSv/y will get sufficient financial help from the government, but those in the remaining area are not going to be financially supported. …Where are those residents in 50mSv/y going be housed? They could be offered to live in 20mSv/y zone in Fukushima prefecture as the government considers it safe…… Also, they would advise the residents to use dosimeters because it reads even lower than the public monitoring posts. http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/future-for-fukushima-evacuees-is-not.html *Japan’s plan to make radiation readings come out looking better -Plan to lower radiation readings OK’d 日本政府は住民の被爆を低く見積もるよう仕組んでいる。 JIJI NOV 12, 2013 (Source) https://nuclear-news.net/2013/11/13/japans-plan-to-make-radiation-readings-come-out-looking-better/#m… […]

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