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Second Public Lecture Program for Citizens Held in Nagasaki
Second Public Lecture Program for Citizens Held in Nagasaki

RERF held its second public lecture for Nagasaki citizens at a hall in the Nagasaki A-bomb Museum, from 1:30 to 4:00 in the afternoon of July 21 (Sat.). This open lecture program for citizens was carried out for the second time in Nagasaki to promote exchange between citizens and RERF staff, by providing intelligible explanations to the general public including A-bomb survivors on RERF’s longstanding research achievements concerning A-bomb radiation health effects. Despite the rainy weather, more than 110 people attended the event.

The public event consisted of two lectures. First, Dr. Nori Nakamura (Chief Scientist) spoke on “Considering low-dose radiation exposure,” explaining the level of risk increase due to radiation exposure using results from RERF’s longitudinal studies of radiation health effects. Next, Dr. Asao Noda (Assistant Chief, Department of Genetics) gave a lecture titled “Methods of evaluating radiation doses,” introducing basic knowledge of radiation in a clear and straightforward manner and explaining that our fear of radiation should be appropriately based on accurate understanding of radiation.

At the beginning of the program, following greetings by Chairman Toshiteru Okubo, Ms. Sakue Shimohira, former President of the Association of A-bomb Bereaved Families in Nagasaki, shared her negative memories from the ABCC era as well as her relief about being able to undergo health examinations since ABCC’s reorganization into RERF. She also expressed her high expectations for RERF’s continued great success. Dr. Yuji Nagayama, Director of the Atomic Bomb Disease Institute (ABDI), Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, then gave feedback on the two lectures and made special remarks about the relationship between ABDI and RERF. In the Q&A session that followed, many questions were raised including those about internal and external exposures associated with the nuclear power plant accidents.