健康被害「影響認められず」　原発事故調査、今後も変わらず―国連

　東京電力福島第１原発事故による影響を調査してきた国連科学委員会のハース前議長は１９日、東京都内の日本記者クラブで会見し、「（データ上は）放射線被ばくが直接影響した健康被害はない」との見解を改めて示した。調査は、最新のデータを基に独立した立場の多数の専門家が関わっており、「今後結論が大きく変わる可能性は低い」と強調した。
　ハース氏は、将来的ながん発生率への影響についても「識別できる水準になるとは考えにくい」と説明。事故後に周辺で子どもの甲状腺がんの診断数が増加したことに関しては「広範囲に及んだ高感度スクリーニングの結果だ」と結論付けた。（2022/07/19-17:33）

Gillian Hirth, former chair of a U.N. panel, on Tuesday reiterated the panel's view that radiation exposure from the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima Prefecture had no direct adverse health effects on local people.
   "The accident led to no adverse documented public health effects that were directly attributable to radiation exposure from the accident," Hirth told a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo.
   Noting that the investigation by the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation is independent and based on up-to-date data, Hirth said the conclusion is "unlikely to change significantly in the foreseeable future."
   Hirth observed that "future cancer rates that could be inferred from radiation exposure (from the Fukushima accident) are unlikely to be discernible."
   The nuclear accident, triggered by the March 2011 powerful earthquake and tsunami, happened at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in the northeastern prefecture.