UNSCEAR議長への手紙（第３弾）

 

UNSCEAR議長あてに以下の手紙（第３弾）を送信した。

今年８月と９月にUNSCEARの事務局長に『UNSCER2020/2021報告書に日本側はどう関与したか』について、４回に分け英訳を送っていた。その内容を現議長、前議長（この報告書の責任者）と執筆者の一人（ロシア人）にも送付した。

デタラメ、線量矮小化、改竄等の非科学定な内容のUNSCEAR2020/2021報告書に代わる新たな報告書の作成を強く要請した。

以下の英文は、『UNSCEAR２０２０・２０２１報告書に日本側はどう関与したか』の第５章を英訳したもので以下で公開しています。
鈴木元氏や明石慎言氏の強い関与が記載されている。

前半： https://nimosaku.blog.ss-blog.jp/2023-02-12
後半： https://nimosaku.blog.ss-blog.jp/2023-02-13

第１弾の手紙は以下をご覧ください。
https://nimosaku.blog.ss-blog.jp/2023-12-09

第２弾の手紙は以下をご覧ください。
https://nimosaku.blog.ss-blog.jp/2023-12-16

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Dear Dr Jing Chen 　Chair of the UNSCEAR Committee

Cc Ms. Borislava Batandjieva-Metcalf,


Following yesterday, I am sending you the No. 3 of” How were Japanese researchers involved in the process of developing the UNSCEAR 2020/2021 report?”

Science is not about what anyone says, but what it says.

In other words, science is not what UNSCEAR, an authoritative international organization, says, but what the UNSCEAR report says.

However, the UNSCEAR 2020/2021 report is full of errors, dose minimization, and falsification, and it has become clear that it is far removed from science.

Please see below for the website of the "Association for Clarifying the Truth about Thyroid Exposure Due to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident".
https://fukushimakyoto.namaste.jp/akiraka/index.html

The database is as follows
http://natureflow.web.fc2.com/HP/index.html

●Publication No. 3 (2023)

　Fukushima Thyroid Cancer: A High Incidence of Thyroid Cancer Due to Chernobyl-Level Exposure
　-UNSCEAR report that created its own unfavorable situation by underestimating radiation doses"
https://fukushimakyoto.namaste.jp/akiraka/20230331NO3.html

●Publication No. 2 (2022)

High Incidence of Thyroid Cancer: Cause of Exposure Can No Longer Be Concealed
　　-Criticism of the UNSCEAR Report"　　
https://fukushimakyoto.namaste.jp/akiraka/20220429NO2.html

I would be appreciated if you point out any problems or errors in the content of this article.

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Dear Ms. Borislava Batandjieva-Metcalf,

Today, I am sending you English translations of sections 5 of the booklet, which have already been published, in addition to those I previously sent you .
This sections describes how the Japanese working group, especially one of its members, Makoto Akashi, and Gen Suzuki, who published many biased papers, were heavily involved in and biased the preparation of the UNSCEAR 2020/2021 report. This fact is revealed in the minutes of the UNSCEAR domestic response committee members obtained through a Freedom of Information request to NIRS, the report of the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission that investigated the causes of the Fukushima nuclear accident, and their statements and papers.

I hope that you will read it with sincerity and give us your opinions and counter opinions.

As I mentioned in my previous e-mail, it is possible for us to send you this booklet, and I　hope that you will take it and read it. And I also hope that you will eventually publish a new report to replace the 2020/2021 report. This will help to restore the credibility of UNSCEAR. It is our responsibility as adults to preserve the true record of Fukushima for future generations, and I hope that UNSCEAR will make a courageous decision.

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How did Japanese researchers influence the preparation of the UNSCEAR 2020/2021 report?（No.3）

５． How did the Japan Working Group influence the preparation of the report?

　The Japanese Working Group established within UNSCEAR had five members: Dr. Akashi, Dr. Akahane, and Dr. Aono of the former NIRS, Dr. Chino of JAEA, and Ozasa of RERF. The Japanese working group did not directly write the report but was strongly involved in providing detailed analysis and information. Its mission is to provide scientific papers and data, especially from Japan to the group of experts who wrote the draft, and to make recommendations. Arbitrary selection of papers was possible .

1.5-1. Involvement of Dr. Makoto Akashi

Dr. Akashi served in three important positions within UNSCEAR, including the Coordinating Expert Group (overall supervision), the Japanese Working Group, and a member of the Domestic Response Committee. He was in an easy position to provide the expert group of the authors with the papers that made the exposure doses look small, and to induce them to minimize the exposure doses. (See the previous footnote)

5-2 Involvement of Dr. Gen Suzuki

Dr. Gen Suzuki is a member of the domestic response committee and is currently the chairman of the Thyroid Ultrasound Examination Evaluation Subcommittee, which is established under the Prefectural Oversight Committee Meeting for Fukushima Health Management Survey. Furthermore, UNSCEAR has fully adopted the "40 Evacuation Scenarios" paper written by Dr. Suzuki, which downsized the radiation dose values of the residents in the evacuation area by ignoring the behavioral records of the most exposed prefectural residents.

At a public meeting held in Iwaki City on July 21, 2022, one of the authors, Dr. M. Balnov , revealed that the Japanese had adopted Dr. Suzuki's recommendation to reduce the uptake ratio of the thyroid gland by 1/2. This was an evidence of Suzuki's strong involvement in the project.

The 2013 report evaluated the inhalation exposure in the situation where the residents of Fukushima Prefecture were ordered to evacuate indoors, but all of them ignored the recommendation to evacuate indoors and stayed outdoors in the extremely cold weather. The dose was reassessed by considering a dose reduction factor assuming that all residents were indoors, which would have a 50% effect of evacuating indoors, and the internal dose due to inhalation was reduced to 1/2.

After a workshop  held by the NPO Radiation Safety Forum, I posed a question to Dr. N, a speaker from JAEA, about the background and reasons for the halving of the indoor evacuation effect. I subsequently received the following response by e-mail.

“The value of 0.5, which is the inhalation reduction effect of sheltering indoors, was determined by UNSCEAR based on the experimental data of Dr. H (JAEA). To be precise, Dr. Gen Suzuki selected the value used as the median value of 0.1 to 1, the range obtained based on Mr. H's experimental data, and UNSCEAR adopted this value.”

Furthermore, Professor Yamazawa of Nagoya University has shown that if the windows remain closed after the plume has passed after evacuating indoors, the plume remains inside the room and internal exposure continues for a long time, rendering the indoor evacuation completely ineffective. Although the arrival period of the plume was wide, there is no data showing that the concentration remained lower indoors than outdoors throughout this period, and rather, the amount of radioactive materials deposited indoors supports the idea that a significant amount of radioactive materials entered indoors.

The responses also revealed that Dr. Gen Suzuki had a decisive impact on reducing internal radiation doses. Dr. Gen Suzuki knew that organicized radioactive iodine could easily penetrate indoors and had warned about this before the accident.

5-3. Inaction and problematic behavior of Dr. Akashi and Dr. Suzuki at the time of the nuclear accident

The inaction and problematic actions of Dr. Akashi and Dr. Suzuki at the time of the nuclear accident are as follows.

(1)Dr. Makoto Akashi:

He advised the government to stop screening surveys of all but 1,080 people, claiming that the effects of radiation were minimal and that epidemiological studies were unnecessary  . The actual extent of radiation exposure was unknown . Furthermore, he asked the government to approve the standard for screening from 1.3 million cpm to 100,000 cpm.（Note１）

(2)Dr. Gen Suzuki

As per prior training, several facsimiles were sent out from NSC advising the patients to take stable iodine pills if they exceeded the screening criteria, as had been decided beforehand. Involvement in the creation of screening standards.

Dr. Akashi and Dr. Suzuki were at NIRS at the same time in the past, and there are many joint research papers. Dr. Suzuki has formally apologized for inadequate prior assumptions.
Even if the authors (the expert group) were to discuss fairly and neutrally based on the convenient papers and data provided by the Japanese working group, the conclusions will be biased in discussions based on the biased papers and data selected by Japanese working group, so that UNSCEAR's fairness and neutrality will not be persuasive. Therefore, many Japanese residents are assuming that the writing expert group readily accepted the biased information of the Japanese Working Group and the National Response Committee

Note1:In an interview with a Tokyo Shimbun reporter, Akashi admitted that the written request he submitted to the government was a mistake. According to the Tokyo Shimbun's "This is  
Special Report Department" (Feb. 4, 2019), "NIRS is in a position to urge the government to start thyroid measurements as soon as possible. Yasuda, who was off-site, said, "The thyroid exposure is at a serious level," and asked NIRS to take early action, but the center's director, Akashi, replied, "There is no consensus within the institute, so we were instructed to hold off on this. Akashi's breach of trust is clear.

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I would appreciate your comments soon.

Best regards,