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Jiji: Japan gov’t picked facilities to treat people with radiation exposure — Fukushima hospitals failed to cope with nuclear victims

Published: February 7th, 2012 at 2:30 pm ET
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Title: Panel Proposes Review of Designated Hospitals for N-Accident Victims
Source: Jiji Press
Date: Feb. 7
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[...] Nuclear Safety Commission on Tuesday proposed reviewing the current designation of hospitals and other medical institutions that treat radiation exposure resulting from nuclear accidents [...]

In the wake of the 1999 criticality accident [...] the commission designated medical institutions near nuclear plants as those providing initial treatment, as well as secondary and tertiary institutions that should accept severely injured and contaminated patients.

[...] five hospitals had been designated as institutions for providing initial treatment. But all of them failed to function as they were either located within evacuation areas or damaged by the natural disasters.

Fukushima Medical University, which had been designated as a secondary institution, was busy treating victims of the disasters and failed to sufficiently cope with people affected by the nuclear accident.

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Published: February 7th, 2012 at 2:30 pm ET
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7 comments to Jiji: Japan gov’t picked facilities to treat people with radiation exposure — Fukushima hospitals failed to cope with nuclear victims

  • James2
    February 7, 2012 at 2:37 pm

    In a world where everything is spin – I wonder what the spin is here.

    Are they trying to get all hospitals designated as radiation hospitals again, without admitting they have a problem with too many patients, or is it simply the hospitals in Fukushima are closed or what..


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  • TepcoSievert TepcoSievert
    February 7, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    Hmmmm … wait a minute: weren’t we told that this accident had caused less than a handful of victims, a sign of how safe the nuclear industry really is? I don’t get it …


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  • dear jones
    February 8, 2012 at 12:34 am

    No we don’t unless we all smiling and cold shunt down our brain.


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  • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad
    February 8, 2012 at 10:02 am

    Low Dose Chernobyl and Fukushima Radiation Dangers To Children
    A Green Road Blog; http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/3071481

    The only way to find out the internal radiation load one has, is to do INTERNAL radiation exposure testing. This is a special instrument designed to do this.

    The Nuke industry does not seem to believe in internal radiation. They do not seem to believe that low dose radiation can cause harm. They seem to only test for external radiation and measure that, while ignoring completely internal low dose radiation exposure and the damage that it may cause.

    As far as I know, it is not possible to measure internal radiation exposure with standard Geiger Counters. This is how contaminated cows got into the food supply. They measured the OUTSIDE of the cows with a Geiger Counter and they were found to be ‘safe’. Then someone tested the internal meat and found high levels of radiation.

    What will NOT WORK? NOT DOSIMETERS, NOT EXTERNAL Waving of wands, NOT Magnetic induction of hair sample testing, which has never found a single case of internal radiation exposure.

    Even the nuke industry ‘estimates’ cannot tell people how much internal radiation they have cannot tell anyone how much radiation they have absorbed INTERNALLY.

    Since it seems that FUKU area hospitals do not allow or will not perform internal radiation testing, it seems that people may be consigned to absorb low levels of radiation over long periods of time.

    Pandora’s Box has been opened and the horrors of internal radiation are now coming out… Enjoy, compliments of the scientists and experts who say radiation cannot harm you, as long as you keep smiling….To see wha

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8746168177815160826
    Nuclear Controversies by Vladimir Tchertkoff; Released in 2003, 51 minutes
    30:20 – According to Professor Yury Bandazhevsky(former director of the Medical Institute in Gomel), “Over 50 Bq/kg of body weight lead to irreversible…


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  • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad
    February 8, 2012 at 10:02 am

    Low Dose Chernobyl and Fukushima Radiation Dangers To Children
    A Green Road Blog; http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/3071481


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