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Fukushima after 2 years / hundreds of thousands of people still live in heavily contaminated territory

….These initiatives will lead to the creation of CRMS. These technical means and the procedures receive the financial support of the Region Rhône-Alpes….

What is CRIIRAD ? What are the objectives of this video series?

O2 Fukushima prefecture / OGUNI area of Date city / June 2012

Published on 5 Dec 2012

This film shows gamma radiation measurements performed by a scientist from CRIIRAD laboratory (B. Chareyron), during a mission to Oguni area of Date City in June 2012, more than one year after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Oguni area (see point O on the map) is located about 10 km east of the city of Fukushima and 55 km north-west away from the damaged nuclear reactors.

This mission has been performed with a team from CRMS (M. Wataru Iwata and M. Kanno). The device is a gamma radiation scintillometer whose results are given in counts per second (c/s). A gamma radiation rate of 3 000 c/s monitored 1 meter above ground is equivalent to 1.48 µSv/h (microSievert per hour). Due to high gamma radiation rates all over the area, including inside houses (0.3 to 0.7 µSv/h inside this particular house) most of the people living there are exposed to annual doses above 1 milliSievert. According to ICRP risk coefficients, a dose of 1 milliSievert corresponds to 17 cancers for each 100 000 exposed persons. For additional information look at http://www.criirad.org and http://www.crms-jpn.com

CRIIRAD

http://www.criirad.org/

2 years after Fukushima: Public Meeting Friday, March 8 at the show Primrose (Chassieu – 69) followed by a press conference

05/03/2013:

CRIIRAD Commission of Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity

With the participation of Mr. Wataru Iwata Director of CRMS (Citizen’s Radioactivity Measurement Station), Mr Alain Chabrolle, Vice President for Health and the Environment in the Rhône-Alpes Regional Council, Mr. Roland Desbordes and Bruno Chareyron, respectively president of the CRIIRAD and laboratory manager CRIIRAD.

Access to reliable and independent radioactivity testing is essential, especially after a nuclear disaster. In March 2011, CRIIRAD has increased controls to assess the impact of Fukushima fallout in France, through a network of independent monitoring supported by the Rhône-Alpes Region.

This financial support allowed CRIIRAD to carry out several missions to Japan and strengthen local citizen initiatives. It has contributed to the birth of Japan CRMS (Citizen’s Radioactivity Measurement Station).

One of our priorities of the association is to defend the right to resettlement of hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens still living in heavily contaminated territories and whose total decontamination is impossible.

Note: Wataru Iwata, Director of CRMS and Bruno Chareyron, laboratory manager CRIIRAD also intervene in Paris for a press conference Tuesday, March 12 from 11am to 13H for mayor of the 2nd district. Contact reporter msb.jne @ free.fr

What is CRMS?

CRMS (Citizen’s Radioactivity Measurement Station) is a Japanese, non-profit, created in 2011 whose objective is to improve the protection of citizens against ionizing radiation.

It is an independent organization whose mission is to provide citizens with the tools to acquire knowledge on radiation protection, to learn how to measure radioactivity and thereby improve their protection independently. The CRMS radioactivity measurements made ​​at the request of citizens and publishes the results on its website or in other media to share the data with the largest number. They are made ​​by citizens in 9 laboratories CRMS located on the territory of the prefecture of Fukushima and 10th located in Tokyo in late 2012.

For more information: http://fr.crms-jpn.com/

What is CRIIRAD?

CRIIRAD (Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity) is a non-profit organization created in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. Indeed, at that time, the French authorities have lied about the intensity of the radioactive fallout. In order to make independent measurements, CRIIRAD created his own laboratory.

Following the Fukushima disaster (March 2011), CRIIRAD conducted an impact assessment on the French territory through a combination of technical means to measure radioactivity in the air (network of beacons) and impact benefits (monitoring of the food chain) and its support for Japanese citizens in their efforts to create independent monitoring methods. These initiatives will lead to the creation of CRMS. These technical means and the procedures receive the financial support of the Region Rhône-Alpes.

For more information on the actions taken in 2011 and 2012 by CRIIRAD alongside CRMS, see:

http://www.criirad.org/actualites/dossier2011/japon_bis/crms/extrait_Japon.pdf

http://www.criirad.org/actualites/dossier2012/fukushima/5dec2012.html

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