Press release

3/22/2011

 

The IPPNW asks the World Health Organization (WHO) to inform the population in Japan unclarified and objectively about the health effects of the Fukushima disaster and possible nuclear glazes. „Now the WHO should express itself for an evacuation of the women, children and the pregnant women from the affected regions because they are especially ray-sensitive“, explains IPPNW doctor Dr. Angelika Claussen.

 

For many years an arrangement criticises the IPPNW between the WHO and the international nuclear energy organisation (IAEO) from 1959. Because the principal purpose IAEO is to promote the nuclear energy, this arrangement stops the WHO from protecting the population enough against the health risks of the nuclear energy. In 2001 the WHO had closed their project office for nuclear emergency services and public Health in Helsinki. We ask the Federal Government to work towards the fact that the WHO informs the public now in spite of the arrangement with IAEO independently about the health effects of ionising radiation. In addition Dr. Angelika Claussen: "The WHO reaction to the atomic disaster of Fukushima is absolutely insufficient. We fear an interest collision with IAEO which runs through the risks of the nuclear energy for many years“.

 

Thus IAEO numbered the victims of the super-region of Chernobyl at less than 50 dead people. The WHO speaks till this day of 9,000 people who could die on account of the ray exposition. Only at the end of February, 2011 the scientific committee of the United Nations of the investigation of the effects of the atomic radiation (UNSCEAR) has confirmed these figures once more. The conferred a doctorate biologist Alexej Jablokow, member of the Russian academy of the sciences, has gathered 2009 numerous data and investigation results about the health and ecological results of Chernobyl. He numbers the total number of the dead people at from 900,000 to 1.8 millions worldwide. The figures also incorporate future dead people because the Tschernobyl-nuclides further remain in the biosphere. Up to now only with 830,000 liquidators there are 112.000-125.000 dead people. 

 

Angelika Claussen criticises that on the part of IAEO in view of the Fukushima disaster the smallest readiness does not exist to think over the support of the nuclear energy. IAEO boss Yukija Amano had explained, the accident of Fukushima has been caused by an unprecedented natural disaster and changes nothing in the fact that the humanity needs this stable energy source furthermore, also to weaken the negative effects of the climate change.

 

The IPPNW requests the governor's advice to update the statute IAEO and to make the protection of the population before the risks of the civil and military use of the nuclear energy the top priority. This also encloses the closing of nuclear power stations with serious security deficits. Besides, improved measures are necessary for the supervision of nuclear material to prevent the wide spreading of nuclear weapons.


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