独 原発やめて空気汚染などで年間１０００人以上の寿命が短くなった、と。

マンチェスター大学のリチャード・ウェイクフォード教授は「幸いなことに、一般市民が受けた放射線量は1986年の旧ソ連チェルノブイリ事故からは程遠いものだった」と指摘しました。https://t.co/WHYhMYvI65

— 時事ドットコム（時事通信ニュース） (@jijicom) March 11, 2021

 

MARCH 10, 2021
expert comment in advance of the 10th anniversary of Fukushima

Prof Jim Smith, Professor of Environmental Science at Portsmouth University, said: 

“Surprisingly, though, the most devastating consequence of Fukushima may be its climate change impact. Germany’s response to Fukushima was to begin phase-out of its nuclear plants, whilst continuing generation of electricity from highly polluting brown coal. It has been argued1 that this has led to more than 1000 lives shortened annually due to increased air pollution as well as hundreds of megatonnes of extra CO2 emitted.

Prof Richard Wakeford, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Manchester, said:

“Fortunately, the radiation doses received by workers and the public were nowhere near the high doses received after the Chornobyl accident in 1986. The first concern after an accident at an operating nuclear reactor is to ensure that doses received by thyroid glands, especially those of children, from intakes of radioactive iodine are limited by appropriate protective measures, such banning local milk supplies. It would appear that restricting intakes of radioiodine was largely successful, although a handful of workers received high thyroid doses. It is unlikely that excess thyroid cancer cases (or excess cases of other cancers) will be detected, and the large number of thyroid cancers among those exposed as children around Chornobyl will not be repeated after the Fukushima accident.

Prof Geraldine Thomas, Chair in Molecular Pathology at Imperial College London and Director of the Chernobyl Tissue Bank, said:

“That evacuation is now known to have resulted in a further loss of life, through insufficient medical support being available to move the sick and frail, and through lifestyle changes and psychological consequences as a result of the breakdown in community and family life. This was a complex situation, involving infrastructure issues due to the earthquake and tsunami, and uncertainties around the doses of radiation to which the public may be exposed. With hindsight, it is now known that the doses of radioiodine to the thyroid of young children were very low, and that no discernible increase in thyroid cancer would be expected1. In contrast to the Chernobyl accident, that happened 25 years before the Fukushima accident, the situation played out in the full glare of the media. This led to a series of alarming headlines, which were further supported by ill-informed social media comment from those with an axe to grind over the use of nuclear power.

他方、

原子力の世界のエネルギー供給における役割はどんどん縮小していく Nature

岡口 基一さんの投稿 2021年3月10日水曜日

Nuclear technology’s role in the world’s energy supply is shrinking

という意見も。