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Japanese high school students raise awareness of internal radiation emitters

“Victims of the H-bomb test and of the Fukushima nuclear plant
accident share a common problem: internal exposure to radiation,”

Fukushima high school students launch nuclear study group November 09,
2012 Asahi Shimbun, By AYAKO NAKADA
Two high school girls from Fukushima Prefecture are to launch a peace
discussion forum, inspired by the success of a similar long-running
nuclear study group run by students elsewhere in Japan.

Later this month, Sayako Ogata and Saki Nezu, both second-year high
school students, plan to invite fellow students to a screening of
“Hoshasen o Abita X-nen-go” (X years after radiation exposure), a
documentary about fishermen exposed to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen
bomb test at Bikini Atoll in 1954.

Ogata and Nezu saw the movie themselves on Oct. 7, when they accepted
an invitation to a screening and discussion afterward with the film’s
director, 52-year-old Hideaki Ito, and 83-year-old Akira Hayasaka, a
writer.

Ogata said she felt a personal connection to the movie’s subject. “I
am worried that I might get sick in the future,” she said. In the
aftermath of the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, her
house was among buildings that were decontaminated……

Over the years, students from various high schools have been helping
each other to gather information about more than 200 former fishermen
and their survivors.

“I can’t believe they are the high school students just like us,”
Ogata recalled thinking when she met the group.

“Victims of the H-bomb test and of the Fukushima nuclear plant
accident share a common problem: internal exposure to radiation,” she
said.

The group’s members briefed Ogata and Nezu about their activities, and
the pair came away thinking about starting a similar study group in
Fukushima.

The students’ first project–screening the H-bomb test movie–is now
under way. ….
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/AJ201211090005

December 27, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, opposition to nuclear