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原発事故当時とその後の体調不良について
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English
text which had been submitted to UN Human Rights Council in 2012
November and UNSCEAR in June 2013. There has been no reply yetFukushima Accident and Health Problems Afterwards
A citizen from Kooriyama (Translation by Mari Takenouchi)
On
March 11 2011, I was in Kooriyama city in Fukushima prefecture.
When Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors exploded one after another, I
was waiting in line for water distribution truck and wondered around
the town searching for food. All my neighbors, people in lines,
food shop owners, my relatives did not know anything about these
explosions. Sometime afterwards, a rumor was heard.
“Seems like there has been some accident in the nuclear power
plant.” Before we knew what was going on, TV showed a group
of riot police and Tokyo Fire Defense brigades spraying water on
nuclear reactors to control the accident, and then we came to realize
that there had even been some explosions.
When
the explosions took place, all the three members of my family started
to show some symptoms. Swollen throat and pain, severe
migraine, red eyes, diarrhea, nose bleeding, tense muscle, strong
pain around heart with convulsion…all these symptoms occurred at
one time.
When
I heard of a news of the startup of a health consultation by the
Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency around March 26th, I
made a phone call and asked about our familiy’s simultaneous
symptoms. Their answer was, “The throat pain is caused by
some infection. If all of your family members have throat pain,
it should be some infection. Go see a doctor fast and get a
doctor’s medical certificate of some infections disease.”
They solely repeated, “some infectious disease” over and over,
without listening to my story. When I kept asking, their reply
was, “The impact of health by radiation is only child thyroid
cancer, which would emerge only 5 years after. Nothing else
would happen.”
Right
after that, Professor Shunichi Yamashita from Nagasaki University
came to Fukushima prefecture. He became a radiation expert
advisor and started lectures in Fukushima, Kooriyama and other places
in Fukushima, saying, “Be aware of radiation in a right way.
Do not be mislead by demagogies and radiophobic peoples’ words.”
In the free tabloid newspaper, Fuji Sankei Living, distributed in
each household, the headline banner said, “Be aware of radiation in
a right way” along with the interview article by Professor
Yamashita.
In
the middle of April, I made a phone call to a telephone consultant at
Fukushima prefecture. He consoled me saying, “Please do not
worry. 20mSV would not cause any health impact. According
to ICRP, even 100mSV would cause a very slight impact, which is only
0.5% rise in cancer incidence. Please feel safe. You can
trust ICRP since it is an international organization that established
international standards.” This person did not speak fluently and
instead, he seemed lost for words many times and left the phone to
ask for something for his boss, saying, “Hold on a second.”
While I was waiting, I could hear many phones ringing in the same
room, and other prefectural staff members were answering them.
All of them were saying the same words, “Do not worry,” ”It’s
OK,” “It’s safe.”
At
that time, University professors, doctors from big hospitals were
holding radiation seminars at public halls, township gathering
places, and chamber of commerce office.
After
all, our family evacuated to Tokyo. Other people who stayed in
the same evacuation place told me that they were told the same things
when they called the Nuclear Agency. In the gatherings of
Fukushima evacuees in Tokyo, I talked with many people from various
cities and towns, and many of them had some sort of bad physical
conditions. In case of adults, deterioration of their chronic
diseases was by far the most observed ones, while children had nose
bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea. Sudden hospitalization,
necessity of operation on chronic disease, mental instability and all
sorts of things were heard. Some people were diagnosed as
Hashimoto thyroid disease.
However,
when I asked evacuees from Miyagi and Iwate prefectures, I have never
heard of these symptoms.
At
the time of the accident, what we experienced were, abnormal
chilling, irritation of face skin, soreness of throat, nose, and
eyes, nose bleeding, red eyes, vomiting, stomach pains, extreme loss
of appetite, gum bleeding, strong pain of heart with convulsion,
migraine, erythema, back pain and whole body pain, and so on.
Sometime
after the accident, we experienced sluggishness, rise of blood
pressure, eye floater, nail deformation, headache, fatigue, nose
bleeding, diarrhea, shaky hands, blisters on legs and arms, malaise,
extreme forgetfulness, sharp rise of blood pressure, acute pain of
left thigh area, muscle stiffness and cramp, heart pain, loss of
hair, massive bleeding from cut, heart pain, muscle pain, central
nervous system disorders. Each single example seemed to be a
minor trouble, but many of these symptoms came at one time.
All
these symptoms were always attributed to stress triggered by the
disaster. There may have been some symptoms due to severe
mental pains caused by many hardships from the nuclear accident.
However, there have been many symptoms that cannot be explained
solely by mental stress, so I made some research.
Health
records right after Chernobyl accident was kept secret by the Soviet
Government for a long time. In the secret documents, there were
records of numerous number of people carried into hospitals due to
physical abnormalities. I also went through Belarusian and
Ukranian reports 25 years after Chernobyl. After I read these
health problems, I came to realize that what was happening to
ourselves was related to radiation.
At
the end of 2011, I measured the internal radiation dose of our family
by whole body counter, then the figures were nearly 50Bq/kg, which
was in the range of caution. I evacuated to Tokyo one and half
months after the accident and since then, I went back and forth
between Kooriyama and Tokyo. My son always had nose bleeding
whenever we went back to Kooriyama.
There
are more than one million people still living in areas well over
1mSV/year such as in Kooriyama, Fukushima, Nihonmatsu, Date city.
I am very concerned about internal dose of children, pregnant woman
and babies.
I
also heard a story from a child rearing mother from Fukushima city.
She applied for three places for waiting list for whole body counter
measurement. As a result, she was able to measure at two different
places almost at the same time. 1st place was
privately owned place and the 2nd place was a prefectural
place. The figure was highest at the privately owned place and the
second high was the city hospital, and there was not much difference
between the first and second places. But the prefectural place
showed ND-Not Detectable. Her friends also said their figures
were ND at the prefectural place but they got some positive figures
at the city hospital.
Among
the aged, the cases of aggravated chronic disease, cognitive
impairment, and sudden death is increasing. Even among
children, throat abnormalities and death that might be related to
radiation is occurring.
Through
our experiences, we predict that a grave situation would take place
if people continue living in the contaminated areas any longer.
Doctors from IPPNW who visited Fukushima has the same opinion.
Mari Takenouchi, the translator of this document also escaped with
her son. Even though she was from Tokyo, both she and her son
had health problems.
The
government and the prefecture states that there will be no health
problem up to 20mSV/year, but there are many people who are suffering
from some health problems in various areas in Fukushima.
However, due to the social pressure under which people cannot speak
out their thoughts, they have nowhere to appeal.
Every
human being has the right to live. I think it is an
infringement of human rights if the government attributes people’s
health problems solely to stress and give no proper health care and
treatment.
I
strongly believe that people in Fukushima, especially babies,
children and pregnant women should be evacuated at the earliest
possible timing from Fukushima.
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