“FROM CHERNOBYL TO FUKUSHIMA”
Entrance free
Saturday 12 May 2012
8.30-18.00
Ecumenical Centre
150 Route de Ferney
Geneva (Switzerland)
Sunday 13 May 2012
9.00-15.00
Scientists and citizens discuss
Joint action, now and in the future
Salle Gandhi, Maison des Associations
15 rue des Savoises, Geneva
Programme, 12 May 2012
Saturday morning
8.30 Welcome
9.00 Presentation.
Chair : Marc Molitor
Rémy Pagani. Councillor, City of Geneva
Opening address
Paul Roullaud. (France) Representative, IndependentWHO
Why organize a scientific and citizen forum?
Roland Desbordes. (France) President, CRIIRAD
Citizen information: taking responsibility
Paul Lannoye. (Belgium) Scientist, Member of the European Parliament
Why have the risks of exposure to radioactivity always been underestimated?
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9.50 Overview of the radiocontamination in Japan and the health consequences of Chernobyl.
Chair : André Larivière
Alexei Yablokov. (Russia) Environmental scientist, adviser, Academy of Sciences.
The diversity of biomedical consequences of Chernobyl.
Shinzo Kimura. (Japan) Professor, University of Hokkaido, specialist in radioprotection.
Extent of contamination and first clinical symptoms following the Fukushima catastrophe.
Eisuke Matsui. (Japan) Director, Institute of Environmental Medicine of Gifu, specialist in respiratory illness.
Research and activities of scientists and citizens in Japan who are concerned about low dose internal radiation exposures.
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11.25 Radioprotection against internal contamination.
Chair : Wladimir Tchertkoff
Galina Bandajevskaia. (Belarus) Pediatrician, cardiologist.
The state of children’s health in Belarus following the Chernobyl accident.
Alexei Nesterenko. (Belarus) Director, Belrad Institute
The concept of radioprotection of the local population; the radio-ecological atlas; human beings and ionizing radiation.
Vladimir Babenko. (Belarus) Assistant Director, Belrad Institute
From Chernobyl to Fukushima: a practical guide to radioprotection.
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Programme, 12 May 2012
Saturday afternoon
14.00 Management of the catastrophe by the authorities and its effects on society.
Chair : Eric Peytremann
Sophie Fauconnier. (France) General Practitioner.
Health impact of the Chernobyl accident in Corsica: an independent epidemiological study finally established.
Paul Jobin. (France) Associate Professor, University of Paris-Diderot
Fukushima: “radiation management “ and epidemiological dissidence in the nuclear establishment.
Kolin Kobayashi. (Japan) Journalist, correspondent, DaysJapan
Nuclear energy in Japan and the anti-nuclear movement from Hiroshima to Fukushima.
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15.20 Civil society: Following Chernobyl and Fukushima, NGOs, individual citizens, politicians, health professionals and independent scientists take action.
Chair : Marc Molitor
Youri Bandajevsky. (Belarus) Anatomopathologist, President, Centre for Analysis and Coordination “Ecology and Health”
From the syndrome of chronic incorporation of long living radionuclides to the creation of programmes and radioprotection policies for populations: an integrated model).
Aya Marumori and Waturu Iwata. (Japan) , Independent Laboratory (CRMS) of Fukushima
Independent initiatives and activities following Fukushima
Michèle Rivasi. (France) Member, European Parliament, co-founder, CRIIRAD
What is Europe doing in the area of radioprotection?
Miwa Chiwaki. (Japan) Representative, Association of Mothers from Fukushima
Our struggle for survival continues.
Chris Busby. (United Kingdom) Chemist/chemical physicist, Secretary ECRR
Small area cancer epidemiology for the citizen: some approaches.
Michel Fernex. (Switzerland) Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine, Basel, former consultant, WHO
Fukushima: Precious time has been lost.
Conclusions
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Sunday 13 May 2012
9.00-15.00
Scientists and citizens discuss
Joint action, now and in the future
Salle Gandhi, Maison des Associations
15 rue des Savoises, Geneva