the lecture of Shinzo KIMURA

  On 20 July, there was a lecture of Shinzo KIMURA at Kyushu Univ. Nishijin Plaza in Fukuoka city.
　I intended to go on prefectural road 31, but on the way to there I took the express way. It was truly bad. The city express way was jammed, so I get off before my destination. After that I caught in a heavy traffic jam at Watanabe street.
　In the end I reached there three o’clock behind one hour, the lecture had started at two o’clock.
  Mr. Kimura has been consulted victims of chernobyl in Belarus and Ukraine, that’s why he was anxious about the situation damaged from Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. In Nihonmatsu city, he has been measuring the air dose completely with citizen. They also have measured the breast milk, school lunch, and soil.
  At Nihonmatsu city, the local public organization has handed out radiation record book to the one sixty hundred thousand citizen. They will record another twenty or thirty years. He quoted Karl Popper, “that what is unfalsifiable is classified as unscientific”
    After the lecture had finished, some people asked questions. One of them, how did he feel the difference between Belarus and Ukraine. He replied, Ukriane had gone close to EU, while Belarus had decided to go on dictatorship as far as the nation was week. Though Belarus had established dictatorship, the govenor has taken good care of people and people seemed happy. The medical level went higher so that they can operate endoscopic surgery for thyroid cancer. He said it good for young patients because the scars so-called chernobyl necklace have hurt their mentality.
  He said he was surprised to see how clean the hospital in Belarus was. In Ukraine the toilet in hospital was duty, he felt the difference of policy. In Ukraine the east an residents and western residents were differ in mindset. In western area was stable, but in eastern area the neo-Nazi conspired with pro-Russian.
   He said from now on how would you manage risk was to be questioned. He would consult with the local staff.



  7月20日　福岡市の九州大学西新プラザで木村真三先生の講演会があった。
県道31号線を使うつもりだったが途中高速道路に入った。大失敗。都市高速は渋滞で途中で降りた。それから渡辺通りの大渋滞に捕まった。
結局１４時から始まるのに会場に着いたのは１５時だった。
先生はベラルーシやウクライナでずっとチェルノブイリ被災者をみてきた経験から福島の現状を心配しておられる。二本松では市民と一緒になって、徹底的に空間線量を測っている。また、母乳、給食、土壌も測っている。二本松市では市民６万人に管理手帳を配布。これから２０年〜３０年続けていく。反証可能性のないものは科学ではない、とカール・ポパーの言葉を引用された。放射能による心身への影響は裏をとりながらきちんと伝えるべきだとおっしゃった。
　講演後に何人か質問した。ベラルーシとウクライナのちがいをどう感じるか？
　ウクライナはソ連崩壊後すぐEUに接近したがベラルーシは国が力をもつまでは独裁でいこうとしたそうだ。独裁ではあるけれど国民のことを考えてやっており人々は幸せそうだ、とのこと。病院も充実し甲状腺がんの内視鏡手術ができるようになった。チェルノブイリネックレスとよばれる手術跡は子どもの心に傷を残すから内視鏡手術ができるのはよいそうだ。
　ベラルーシの病院の清潔さに驚いたそうだ。ウクライナは病院のトイレが汚いそうで、そこにも政治の違いをみると言っていた。ウクライナは東側と西側で人々の意識が違うそうだ。西側は安定しており、東側がネオナチが親ロと組んだとか。
　これからの支援は危機管理能力が問われる。現地スタッフと情報交換をしながら行うそうだ。

 22 July 2014