放射能の関係で、この国が処理しなくてはならないものが、どれだけあり、今、どういう措置がとられているのかを知りたくて、文芸助手たちといろいろ調べている。……事故前のデータは、政府のＨＰ等で見つかるが、事故後、どのくらいの放射性廃棄物が出て、それをどこに処理していくのか。汚染された水の量は、どのくらいか、その行き場、どう処理をするのか。除染が完了した場合の汚染された土はどのくらいになるのか。焼却灰はどのくらい出ているのか。そういう事故後の具体的な放射性廃棄物の量と処理の仕方を示したデータが見つからず困っていた。そういうデータはどこを見ればわかるだろうか。これだけの重大事である。私たちは誰かがそのトータルを常に計算しようとしているはずだと思ったのだ。……日本放射線影響学会の「福島原発事故に伴うQ&Aグループ」というのが見つかった。「私達は、放射線の生物影響を研究する大学等の研究者の有志が集まったグループです。～地元の方々ばかりか日本国民の多くが見えないものに対するどうしようもない不安を感じておられると思います。～TV報道などを通じ、一般の皆様が日頃なじみのない放射線の健康影響について計り知れない多くの不安を抱えておられることを目の当たりにして、放射線の生物影響の専門家である私達が、自分達の持つ知識とこれまでの実験的事実に基づいて現状を解析し、皆様の疑問に答え、少しでも皆様の不安を和らげて頂きたいと思い、このQ&Aを設けました」「メンバーが適切な解説を作り、その一部はHPに掲示するとともに皆様に直接回答させて頂きます。～ささやかな支援ですが、少しでも皆様のお役に立つことを願っています」とのことだった。頼もしいではないか。……さっそく尋ねてみた。代表の渡邉正己教授（京都大学原子炉実験所放射線生命科学研究部門）が答えてくれた。「現時点では、まだ、全体量の推測も統一した見解は無いと思います。加えて、どのような処理法が有効であるかも判っていませんので、最終的な処理分量がどの程度になるかも判っていません。最近、現場で処理法のパイロット実験が始まったところと認識しています。あなたのご質問には、私自身は、まだまともに答えられません」とのことだった。……渡邉教授、不安は和らぐことはなかったけれど、正直に答えて下さって、ありがとう。質問への回答よりも深い真実が見えたよ。
This “ Q and A ” works well?
I am researching radioactivity with my assistants to find out how many things this country have to settle down and what measures are taken.
We can read the data before the accident on the government website, but it is difficult to know how much nuclear waste is after the accident and how to handle it, the amount of contaminated water and where to dispose and how to manage it. How huge the amount of contaminated soil after its decontamination would be? How much is the burned ash? I was at a loss how to look for the concrete data of the amount of nuclear waste and processing methods after the accident. Where can we find them? This is such a terrible matter. We thought there would be definitely someone who are always trying to calculate the total amount.
Then we found out “Q and A followed by the nuclear accident at Fukusima” by Radiation Research Society. “We are the group of researchers gathered voluntarily, in order to research how the radiation affects living things. Not only the people living in Fukushima, but also all the Japanese people are worried about invisible danger. Watching the TV broadcast, we realize that people have a tremendous anxiety toward the influence of radiation on human health. We set up this Q and A page on our website, hoping that we can lessen people’s anxiety by answering your questions as experts of radiation influence on human health, providing our knowledge and interpretation based on the fact obtained from actual experiments. The members of our group make appropriate explanations and we are going to answer your questions directly by uploading some of them on website. We hope this will help you. ”
I asked him a question right away. Prof. Masami Watanabe (Department of research for radiation biological science, Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute) answered me back immediately.
“At this moment, no assumption of the total amount or no common answer are found out yet. Also, there is no answer for what kind of measure to handle nuclear waste is available and how much waste we have to deal with in total yet. I know that a pilot experiment for a processing measure has started recently, but I myself can’t answer your question properly yet.”
Mr. Watanabe, your answer didn’t lessen my anxiety, but thank you for your honest comments on my question.
This “ Q and A ” works well?
I am researching radioactivity with my assistants to find out how many things this country have to settle down and what measures are taken.
We can read the data before the accident on the government website, but it is difficult to know how much nuclear waste is after the accident and how to handle it, the amount of contaminated water and where to dispose and how to manage it. How huge the amount of contaminated soil after its decontamination would be? How much is the burned ash? I was at a loss how to look for the concrete data of the amount of nuclear waste and processing methods after the accident. Where can we find them? This is such a terrible matter. We thought there would be definitely someone who are always trying to calculate the total amount.
Then we found out “Q and A followed by the nuclear accident at Fukusima” by Radiation Research Society. “We are the group of researchers gathered voluntarily, in order to research how the radiation affects living things. Not only the people living in Fukushima, but also all the Japanese people are worried about invisible danger. Watching the TV broadcast, we realize that people have a tremendous anxiety toward the influence of radiation on human health. We set up this Q and A page on our website, hoping that we can lessen people’s anxiety by answering your questions as experts of radiation influence on human health, providing our knowledge and interpretation based on the fact obtained from actual experiments. The members of our group make appropriate explanations and we are going to answer your questions directly by uploading some of them on website. We hope this will help you. ”
I asked him a question right away. Prof. Masami Watanabe (Department of research for radiation biological science, Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute) answered me back immediately.
“At this moment, no assumption of the total amount or no common answer are found out yet. Also, there is no answer for what kind of measure to handle nuclear waste is available and how much waste we have to deal with in total yet. I know that a pilot experiment for a processing measure has started recently, but I myself can’t answer your question properly yet.”
Mr. Watanabe, your answer didn’t lessen my anxiety, but thank you for your honest comments on my question.
