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「ＳＨＵＴ泊」の川原茂雄共同代表は「原発が止まって７年。電気は不足せず、私たちの生活に何も支障はない。泊原発はやめて、放射能の不安のない北海道をつくろう」と呼びかけました。
２５０人の参加者は手作りのプラカードを掲げ、サウンドカーを先頭に、市民や観光客でにぎわう中心部をデモ行進。「泊は廃炉、再稼働反対」「原発動かす道知事いらない」とアピールしました。
「北電は原発をやめた方がコストダウンにつながる」という「脱原発をめざす北電株主の会」の男性（６４）。「活断層が否定できない泊に原発があること自体が危険。一刻も早く廃炉にすべきだ」と話していました。
泊原発廃炉訴訟原告の女性（６６）は「原発は人ごとでは済まされない。廃炉まで頑張ります」と語ります。
日本共産党のはたやま和也前衆院議員、佐々木明美、長屋いずみ両市議、高橋典子江別市議が参加しました。
福島県は3日までに、同県北塩原村の桜の名所「桜峠」に開かれた露店で、国の出荷制限対象となっている、同県西会津町産の野生のコシアブラが販売されたと発表した。残っていた商品を検査した結果、国の基準値（1キログラム当たり100ベクレル）を超える同260ベクレルの放射性セシウムが検出された。販売していた市民団体に自主回収などを要請した。
県によると、2日に私用で訪れた県職員が露店を発見。100グラム入りの商品が10パック販売済みだった。市民団体側は「西会津町の山林で採取した。出荷制限を知らなかった」としている。
同県の野生のコシアブラは、2村を除き出荷制限や自粛の対象となっている。〔共同〕
May 03, 2019 Categories: Heart News, Stroke News
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Earlier studies linked exposure to high doses of radiation to increased risk of cardiovascular diseases and death from those diseases. This study is the first to find an increased risk of hypertension to low doses of ionizing radiation among a large group of workers who were chronically exposed over many years.
The study included more than 22,000 workers at the first large-scale nuclear enterprise in Russia known as the Mayak Production Association. The workers were hired between 1948 and 1982, with an average length of time on the job of 18 years. Half had worked there for more than 10 years. All of the workers had comprehensive health check-ups and screening tests at least once a year with advanced evaluations every five years.
The researchers evaluated the workers’ health records up to 2013. More than 8,400 workers (38 percent of the group) were diagnosed with hypertension, as defined in this study as a systolic blood pressure reading of ≥140 mm Hg, and a diastolic reading ≥ 90 mm Hg. Hypertension incidence was found to be significantly associated with the cumulative dose.
To put it in perspective, the hypertension incidence among the workers in the study was higher than that among Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb at the end of World War II, but lower than the risk estimated for clean-up workers following the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
The differences may be explained by variations in exposure among the three groups, according to the researchers. Following the atomic bombing, the Japanese experienced a single, high-dose exposure of radiation, the Chernobyl workers were exposed to radiation for a short time period (days and months), while the Mayak workers were chronically exposed to low doses of radiation over many years.
While the development of cancer is commonly associated with radiation exposure, “we believe that an estimate of the detrimental health consequences of radiation exposure should also include non-cancer health outcomes. We now have evidence suggesting that radiation exposure may also lead to increased risks of hypertension, cardiovascular disease and cerebrovascular disease, as well,” said Tamara Azizova, M.D., lead author of the study at the Southern Urals Biophysics Institute in Russia.
Azizova pointed out that in recent years, the number of people exposed to radiation in everyday life, such as during diagnostic procedures, has increased. “It is necessary to inform the public that not only high doses of radiation, but low to moderate doses also increase the risk of hypertension and other circulatory system diseases, which today contribute significantly to death and disability. As a result, all radiological protection principles and dose limits should be strictly followed for workers and the general public.”
How radiation exposure may increase the risk of hypertension is still a question, according to Azizova. “So far, the mechanisms remain unclear, not only for certain cohorts but also for the general population. One of the main tasks for the coming decade is to study the mechanisms of hypertension and heart and brain atherosclerosis occurring in people who are – and who were exposed – to radiation.”
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NUCLEAR PHYSICIST Hiroaki Koide has pointed out that although eight years have passed, there is still more than one million tons of irradiated water which still hasn’t been treated. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)’s “handling” method for this situation was to build a thousand sewage tanks to store the sewage. But as space was limited and the number of sewage tanks was also limited. As such, Koide asserts, “TEPCO will be compelled to release these waters into the sea in the near future.” [1] Moreover, with regards to the core meltdown of the reactor, the melted fuel rods remain unaccounted for.
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At the same time, damages to the environment cannot be compensated. Who is it that would receive compensation? What kind of compensation would that be? Before the disaster, Fukushima’s agricultural industry and natural environment were comparatively famous. But after the disaster, farmers have been forced to the end of a rope, some of which have chosen death. [6] Completely clearing radiation from the land is also impossible, because in clearing remaining radiation in the forest, this would require cutting down all of the trees, and removing all of the topsoils. [7]
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WHEN INTERVIEWED in Zhu Zhong (《諸眾》, literally Multitude), published by Kao Jun Honn in 2015, homeless artist Misako Ichimura raised opposition to the Olympics in the city that “Now we confront the challenge of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Whether we are homeless residents, or just the disprivileged, we all confront a large threat….many disaster victims don’t have a place to settle…For the sake of the Olympics, not only the parks, but the roads will be snatched away. The government also teaches children about the history of the Olympics, organizes many sporting activities. Everyone’s behavior and thinking has been “Olympicized” (P. 83-84). [13]
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「福島三部作」は、3世代、3つの家族を通して、福島県と原発の歴史を3部構成で描くプロジェクト。2011年に起こった東日本大震災を演劇作品として残すことを目的に、福島県にルーツを持つ
谷賢一が約2年間の歳月をかけて取材および執筆を行い、昨年18年には第1部「1961年：夜に昇る太陽」を上演した。今回の一挙上演企画では、7月に福島・いわき芸術文化交流館 アリオス 小劇場で第2部「1986年：メビウスの輪」を発表。その後、8月に東京・東京芸術劇場 シアターイーストにて、第2部と第3部「2011年：語られたがる言葉たち」を上演し、同じく東京会場で第1部から第3部を連続上演する。さらに8月から9月にかけて、大阪・in→dependent theatre 2ndにて第1部から第3部を披露し、9月に福島会場で第3部を上演する予定だ。
DULL-COLORED POP vol.20「福島三部作・一挙上演」
第1部「1961年：夜に昇る太陽」
第2部「1986年：メビウスの輪」
第3部「2011年：語られたがる言葉たち」
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●インラサラ氏・スピーキングツアー 「ベトナムは原発輸入計画を中止しました！」 http://nonukesasiaforum.org/japan/archives/1506 チラシ http://nonukesasiaforum.org/japan/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Inrasara.pdf .pdf
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共催：沖縄環境ネットワーク、沖縄大学吉井美知子研究室、原子力資料情報室、原発いら ない福島の女たち、国際環境NGO FoE Japan、ノーニュークス・アジアフォーラム・ジャ パン 後援：一般社団法人アクト・ビヨンド・トラスト、日本平和学会「3・11」プロジェクト 委員会 ベトナム政府は2016年11月、ロシアと日本による原発建設計画を中止しました。原発建設 予算の倍増および財政難が中止の理由といわれていますが、内外の様々な言論活動なども 影響したと思われます。チュオン・タン・サン前国家主席は白紙撤回の背景について「国 民、特に建設予定地の住民の心配が大きくなった」と述べました（共同通信2017.12.2） 先住民族チャム人の文学者であるインラサラ氏は、2012年4月に小説「チェルノフニット （チェルノブイリとフクシマとニントゥアンの意味）」を執筆しました。また、同年5月 、「原発輸出は非人道的である」とする日本政府への請願書に、インラサラ氏ら多くのチ ャム人を含め626名が命がけで署名しました。インラサラ氏は、圧力や攻撃で命の危機に 直面しながらも原発を止める取り組みを止めませんでした。インラサラ氏はつぎのように も述べています。「福島原発事故の多くの被災者は、我々に大災害を免れる人類の運命に ついて覚醒を促し、それを通して、この危険で苦難に満ちた地球上に生きるすべての人類 に警告してくれている」 原発建設予定地とされたニントゥアン省は、相対的に貧しい地域でチャム人が多く暮らし ているところであり、福島や沖縄にもつながる「構造的な暴力を含む差別」のもとで強引 に原発建設計画が進められようとしていました。 このたび、インラサラ氏を日本に招き、原発を輸出されようとした側の声に耳を傾けたい と思います。
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日本原燃の増田尚宏社長は26日、青森市の東奥日報新町ビルで開いた定例会見で、原子力規制庁の求めに応じ、六ケ所再処理工場に近い「出戸西方断層」の北側と南側で新たに地質調査を実施すると明らかにした。調査は5月にも開始し、期間は1～2カ月を予定。
Elie Geisler says he was asked during the Six Day War to guard a secret base in central Israel that held the device. He described a clash with Col. Yitzhak Yaakov, who demanded control of the base and threatened to break into it by force
From Nixon to Trump, America has always backed a nuclear Israel. This is why
What is Israel hiding about its nuclear program in the ’50s?
Israel had a plan to nuke Sinai in 1967. But how close did it really get to pushing the button?A former Israeli is claiming that during the Six Day War, he commanded a secret base in the center of the country where a nuclear core was stored that could have been used in a nuclear weapon.
In an interview appearing on the website of the Woodrow Wilson Center, Elie Geisler, who was a trained radiation inspector, tells Prof. Avner Cohen that he had been assigned to guard the device for the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission. He also told Cohen that he feared there could be armed internal Israeli conflict over control of nuclear power.
Geisler, who is now a behavioral sciences professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, has lived in the United States since 1973. He was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in 1963, and according to his testimony, served in a secret unit whose soldiers were assigned to the Nuclear Research Center in Dimona. He was a nuclear radiation inspector, a job he continued to fill as a civilian after his military service.
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According to Geisler, he and others supervised the transfer of a small “package” in a wooden crate containing the nuclear device from Dimona to the new base. “We deposited the crate in one of the rooms inside the main building,” he said. “The room was empty of any furniture and without windows.” He said the room in which the device was stored was always locked, and he had the only key. There were 28 armed border policemen under his command, some of whom were stationed in the compound’s watchtowers and were equipped with heavy weapons. “I was told that one or two other cores were in other locations,” he said. From time to time, he said, he would discuss with another person the procedures for moving the core to an assembly point, where it would be connected to the remainder of the device for possible use.
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Geisler’s primary task, he said, “was to verify the safety and security of the object – the core – and to ascertain that no radiation leakage was present.” Twice a day he would measure the radiation level emanating from the object and record his findings in a diary. There was indeed radiation emanating from it, “and hence, it was the real thing.” He describes a visit to the site by former chief of General Staff Moshe Dayan, who would soon be named defense minister instead of Levi Eshkol. “I recall that he was very excited to learn that this was a real core of a nuclear weapon,” Geisler said. “He asked me if this was the real thing, and I confirmed it was.”
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Yaakov, later a brigadier general, gave his own account to Cohen in interviews in 1999 and 2000, whose contents were published in 2017, four years after Yaakov’s death. Yaakov testified that official Israeli figures had planned to explode a nuclear device on a mountain in Sinai to deter Arab states from attacking. “You have an enemy, and he says that he’s going to throw you into the sea. You believe him. If you have a way to scare him, you scare him,” he was quoted as saying. In his conversations with Cohen, Yaakov recalled that “there was some problem,” and the nuclear researcher believes that Geisler’s testimony reveals the “problem” Yaakov was referring to. Naturally, not all the details about the incident are clear or can be published, so questions still remain.
Read more at I Guarded Israel’s First Nuclear Device, Former Israeli Reveals in U.S. Testimony
By Oscar Boyd
TOKYO >> An anger directed toward Tokyo underlies Yusuke Kimura’s two novellas, “Sacred Cesium Ground” and “Isa’s Deluge.” Born from a keen sense of abandonment felt by the Tohoku region in the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and the subsequent nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, this anger plays out across stories exploring the post-disaster relationships between humans and animals.
The protagonist in “Sacred Cesium Ground” is a woman who travels to Fukushima Prefecture to volunteer at the Fortress of Hope, a farm where cattle irradiated by the Fukushima No. 1 power plant meltdown are tended to despite a government order to kill them.
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“Isa’s Deluge” is the more readable of the two, with a flow and pacing that draws in the reader. Shortlisted for the Mishima Yukio Prize after it was first published in 2012, it follows a family of fishermen who relate the story of their uncle Isa and his “deluge” of pain and depression, an allegory of the 3/11 tsunami.
Both novellas highlight peripheral voices in the post-3/11 period and ultimately return time and again to that tension between a “sacrificial” Tohoku and an all-powerful capital. These perspectives are those not frequently heard and challenge the widespread narrative of an ever-dominant Tokyo.
Read more at Novellas express anger after Fukushima disaster
驚愕の数値、専門機関による詳細な調査が必要
玄海原子力発電所と原発周辺自治体との白血病死亡率増加について、原発と白血病発症についての因果関係を調べている魚住昭三弁護士（長崎市）と、市防災士会の辻樹夫会長が公表した資料から、本市における白血病死亡率の詳細な推移がわかった。資料は昭和44年から始まるデータを記載し、５年ごとの白血病死亡率をまとめたもの。対10万人数の白血病死亡率は、玄海原発稼働前と後とでは６から７倍に増加しているという驚愕の数値が並ぶ。また原発周辺自治体も同様に、昭和50年の玄海原発１号機の稼働開始以降から死亡率増加を示す推移を示している。
各県保健部局が毎年発行している衛生統計年報（人口動態編）を引用した資料によれば、玄海原発１号機が稼働する以前の昭和44年から昭和52年までの期間は、本市における対10万人数の白血病死亡率は約３．６人と、同期間の全国平均３．５人とほぼ同じ数値となっている。しかし昭和50年に玄海原発１号機が稼働を始め、その６年後の昭和56年に２号機が稼働開始、平成６年に３号機、平成９年に４号機が稼働を開始するに従い、白血病死亡率は増加の一途をたどっている。平成９年から平成23年までの期間は、全国平均５．７人に対して、本市は26．２人にも及ぶ。
玄海原発は白血病を誘発すると言われるトリチウムを放出する。放出量は全国にある他原発の中で最も多く、稼働開始から現在に至るまで大気中や海洋中に放出され続けている。トリチウムは放射能を含んでいると言われ、全ての原発や核燃料再処理施設では回収されず、自然環境に垂れ流しの状況から、世界中でも深刻な問題となっている。
本市は玄海原発の対岸にあり、島の周囲は海で囲まれているため、海洋に流されたトリチウムを周囲の海洋生物を介して、住民が食事などで摂取している可能性は高い。
一方で県北部の白血病率の高さは、ウイルス性による風土病とされている。特に長崎県はウイルスキャリアが多いことから、玄海原発１号機稼働開始前から発症の割合は全国平均よりも高い。昭和44年から49年の全国平均３．５人に対し、本市は３．９人とわずかな差であり、他の県北部自治体も同様の数値だ。しかし平成９年以降は全国平均から６倍近い明らかな差が生じている。
市防災士会の辻会長は「資料にまとめたデータは、各自治体が公表したもので改ざんする必要がない。相関関係の無視は許されない」と厳しい口調で語った。また「玄海原発の原子炉冷却海水は毎秒70㌧も壱岐水道に放出され、海水温度上昇により漁業にも影響がある」とし「市は九電に明確な調査と対応を要求すべき」と述べた。
続きは原発稼働後、約６倍に増加
A nuclear power plant in Byron, Illinois. Taken by photographer Joseph Pobereskin (http://pobereskin.com).
