Urgent Petition Against 20 millisieverts per year (mSv/y) Radiation Exposure onto Children in Fukushima

[From FoE Japan http://blog.canpan.info/foejapan/daily/201104/24 ]

Please register your opposition to the Japanese Govt decision to expose Fukushima children to 20mSv of radiationOn 19 April, Japan's Education & Science Ministry (MEXT) ordered Fukushima children under radioactive environment of the ongoing nuclear plant crisis to bear annual radiation dose of 20mSv (millisievert), which is equivalent to nuclear plant workers dose limit and is more than 6 times the legal baseline for defining Radiation-Controlled Area where under-18 workers are allowed by law.The annual limit was so far 1 mSv; the Minister officials say that they did not take internal exposure dose into account; and that no relevance of young age risk has been considered, either.Please urgently register your opposition to such an inhumane, unethical and illegal decision of the Japanese Government at http://bit.Ly/20mSvNothx .

For your reference: (English) <http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/Greenpeace-condemns-move-to-raise-radiation-exposure-levels-for-Japanese-children/>http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/Greenpeace-condemns-move-to-raise-radiation-exposure-levels-for-Japanese-children(German) http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,758410,00.html(Spanish) http://tertuliajapon.blogspot.com/2011/04/107gritos-desesperados-de-una.html