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Fukushima City, this morning.
In this hotel, the health-committee of the Prefecture is meeting.
It presents new figures on anomalies detected in children's thyriods, about 1 and a half years after the nuclear catastrophe.
The chairman is Prof. Yamashita, who after the desaster advised the population of Fukushima to laugh a lot - then, radiation couldn't do them amy harm.
The public is allowed to attend but questions are not allowed.
Dr. Suzuki, who conducted the tests on more than 57.000 children, introduces the results.
In more than 42% of the children, lumps or cysts have been found.
After Chernobyl, the number there ranged between 0,5 and 1%; which was measured at that time by Prof. Yamashita.
But what amazes us even more: none of all these experts asks what is the reason for such a high value.
We drive to Minamisoma at the edge of the prohibited zobe. There, Dr. Suzuki wants to inform worried parents in the afternoon.
We meet Mr. Yoshida. He - as most people here - has lost his faith that the government deals with the aftermath of the catastrophe in a reliable way.
And he shows us why:
All across the region, the government has set up radiation monitoring stations, like in front of this kindergarden.
But the results do not correspond to what Mr. Yoshida is measuring at the same place.
"The radiation that's been measured by the official stations and the one we're exposed to in reality, differ very much.
At some places, the actual radiation is about 5 times higher. We have informed the government about this."
Only when the citizens of Minamisoma find it out by themselves, the government admits that their official measurements in fact nearly all are erroneous.
"We have asked the government why they would set up these useless monitoring stations, and all they answered was:'But it was you who wanted to have monitoring stations!'
I believe they want to downplay the consequences of the catastrophe."
In a big conference town hall, Dr. Suzuki tries to explain the examination results to the parents, and he concludes that they should not worry.
The high range of thyriod-aberrations probably was due to improved measurement methods, he says.
But the people here don't believe him.
"He's not right to say 'all is ok', when even he himself obviously has no clue for as to why!
Beings asked if the high ratio of thyrid-aberrations within children was normal,he tells us that a comperative clinical trial does not exist, until now.
But maybe the children here simply had eaten too much iodine and seafood.
He couldn't say if it radiation related. "We are only here to tell the parents the examination results."
It looks like Mr. Yoshida and all the other parents still have to wait a long time, until they get a proper explanation for the cysts and lumps in their children's thyriods.