Mainichi: Gov’t “choreographed” event on Fukushima health effects

Published: October 5th, 2012 at 7:15 pm ET
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Title: Fukushima Prefecture prepared proceedings for nuke radiation meeting
Source: Mainichi
Date: Oct 5, 2012

The Fukushima Prefectural Government drew up proceedings for a health research panel prior to a formal July 2011 meeting on nuclear radiation, deciding in advance what members should say, the Mainichi has learned.

The drafted proceedings included concluding remarks about the results of the research on the health of Fukushima Prefecture residents [...]

When contacted by the Mainichi Shimbun about the choreographed proceedings, a prefectural government official in charge said the Fukushima government “may have produced” a chart of proceedings but declined to make further comment. [...]

[The chart] ended with the prearranged conclusion that internal exposure to cesium 134 and cesium 137 was less than 1 millisievert in total and extremely low [...]

A prefectural government official said the chart may have been prepared for the panel chairman, Shunichi Yamashita, vice president of Fukushima Medical University. [...]

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