28/02/2014

Analysis of feedback experience from the ICRP Dialogue Initiative 
on the rehabilitation of living conditions after the Fukushima accident

What lessons for the experts?

First seminar

Espaces Cap 15
1-15 Quai de Grenelle, 75015 Paris
http://www.cap15.com/en

Paris, 11 March 2014

Background

Following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) has undertaken jointly with the Japanese Association "Radiation Safety Forum" a series of dialogues between all stakeholders to identify possibilities for improving the living conditions for people living in areas affected by the accident. Since November 2011, a dialogue is held approximately every 4 months.

Parallel to and in connection with this initiative, groups of citizens organized themselves to promote exchange between the inhabitants of the affected territories, experts, local professionals and authorities to take action at the level of communities to better understand the radiological situation and to improve the living conditions of people having made ​​the choice to remain in the territories affected by the contamination.

Given their experience in the field of stakeholder engagement and post-accident management, IRSN and CEPN accompany and support the ICRP Dialogue Initiative together with ASN, NRPA and the CRPPH/NEA.

The IRSN - CEPN analysis

In this context, an analysis of the feedback experience from these actions has been launched in collaboration between IRSN and CEPN on the following issues:

-	The conditions for the involvement of the various Japanese stakeholders (authorities, experts, professionals, NPO, citizens…) in the post-accident management at the local level;

-	The modalities for mobilising the local, national and international expertise at the service of the concern and expectations of citizens in their day-to-day life (co-expertise)

-	The emergence and the development of the practical radiation protection culture in the context of post-accident

This analysis is conducted in close cooperation with experts, professionals and representatives of the Japanese civil society involved in the rehabilitation of living conditions in the areas affected by the accident.

The purpose of this feedback experience is to develop proposals, on the one hand, to raise awareness and to prepare experts to accompany the different actors of the civil society in post -accident situation and, on the other hand, to take into account the human dimensions of post-accident management in the orientation of R & D works in the field of radiation protection and radio-ecology.

Two working seminars with Japanese participants involved in the ICRP Dialogue Initiative are expected to enrich this analysis and validate the reflections. The first seminar will be held in March 2014 and the second one late 2014.

Objective of the March 11, 2014 seminar

The objective of this first seminar is to present and discuss the testimonies of the Japanese participants on the manner of their engagement with the affected population. The objective is also to present and discuss the progress made so far in the analysis of the lessons learned from the ICRP Dialogue Initiative as well as the first actions implemented at the community level by the local people with the support of experts and professionals. 

The second seminar will be held in the autumn of 2014 with the same Japanese participants and an enlarged participation with representatives of the French civil society. 

Participants

The seminar is designed for managers and senior experts of IRSN involved in post-accident management and the experts of ASN, NRPA and NEA/CRPPH involved in the ICRP Dialogue Initiative.

The Japanese participants:

•	Ryoko ANDO 
•	Leader of the “Ethos in Fukushima” NPO

•	Prof. Nobuhiko BAN 
•	Professor at Tokyo Healthcare University
•	Member of ICRP Committee 1

•	Prof. Ryugo HAYANO
•	Professor at University of Tokyo
•	Researcher at CERN antimatter 

•	Satsuki KATSUMI 
•	Former Director of primary school in the Fukushima Prefecture 
•	Advisor on education issues for the City of Date 

•	Yujiro KURODA
•	Assistant Professor at University of Tokyo Hospital, Department of Palliative Medicine

•	Prof. Ohtsura NIWA: 
•	Member of the ICRP Main Commission
•	Professor at Kyoto University - Associate Professor at the Medical University of Fukushima
•	Coordinator of the ICRP Dialogue Initiative in Japan

•	Jun Ichiro TADA
•	Member of the “Radiation Safety Forum Japan” NPO
•	Adviser to the city of Date
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Programme of the seminar

•	9h-9h30 : Introduction by IRSN and  presentation of participants

•	9h30-11h : Japanese testimonies followed by questions 
•	Satsuki KATSUMI: “Report of decontamination and rehabilitation in Tominari elementary school”. 
•	Nobuhiko BAN: “Communicating with people: experience with the Japan Health Physics Society Q&A website and in Iitate village”.

•	11h-11h30: Coffee break

•	11h30- 13h00: Japanese testimonies followed by questions 
•	Junichiro TADA: "Three year experience and perspective of an NPO member in Fukushima."
•	Yujiro KURODA: "Working with local people to improve their living condition: some experiences of a novice scientist."

•	13h-14h30: Lunch 

•	14h30- 16h45 Japanese testimonies followed by questions 
•	Ryugo HAYANO: "Interacting with society after Fukushima: a personal experience".
•	Ryoko ANDO: “The place where one belongs - before and after 3/11.”
•	Ohtsura NIWA: “From radiobiology to serving the people of Fukushima”.  

•	16h45-17h00 : Coffee break

•	17h00–18h00  : 
•	Thierry SCHNEIDER: “What lessons can already be drawn from the ICRP Dialogue Initiative?”

•	18h30 – 20h00 : Cocktail