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THE NUCLEAR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK News in Brief/ No.11 / 18th January 2012 18 Jan (NucNet): About 30 workers at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in Her Majesty’s chief inspector of nuclear installations, Mike Weightman, told the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee that in terms of the workers, “there don’t appear to be any acute radiation effects”. He said 30 of them have had “a significant dose”, but it is not in the sense of an immediate life-threatening dose. In a declared nuclear emergency, the recommended limit is 100 mSv. The International Commission on Radiation Protection is mandated to sanction a maximum accumulated dose of 250 mSv in extraordinary circumstances. Mr Weightman’s comments were published today as part of the minutes taken during the committee hearing in June 2011. The committee was hearing evidence into the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 and its implications for the Mr Weightman said public evacuation was well-organised and exposure countermeasures for the public have been “effective so far”, and there will be a longer-term health monitoring programme. He said: “That is what we have advised the Japanese to do as part of the International Atomic Energy Agency mission that we have been on: to establish a long-term health monitoring programme... It is very difficult to see an excess of cancers in your population; you can make a theoretical prediction but that is different from actually detecting any change.” Committee chairman Tim Yeo called Mr Weightman’s interim report into events at Fukushima-Daiichi “a beacon of objectivity and rationality amidst a lot of rather hysterical reaction to the accident in That report has since been released as a final report. It concluded there is no reason to curtail the operation of Phillip Lee MP said during the committee meeting he was concerned that “we are all getting on the bandwagon”, not helped by “a rather odd decision” by the German government to phase out nuclear energy. He said: “Greenpeace have published that six million people will be victims of Asked if there was any reason from a technical or engineering standpoint for Mr Weightman was also asked about problems getting “I think we touched briefly on that in the report when we said that that led to people not trusting the The transcript is online: www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmenergy/1160/11060901.htm The NucNet database contains more than 15,000 reports published since 1991. To subscribe or ask for any further Comments (0)
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