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DEPARTMENT PASS TO ADMTRAL STRAUSS AEC FROMATLISON'’ ree
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Today's MAINICHI , leading Tokyo newspaper, carried
front-page headline
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"US A-Energy Commission's reply ires
“::. Japanese weather experts" and long article excerpts from
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which follow:
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“Japanese meteorologists are indignant over reply by US
t) AEC stating that (1) radioactivity in open sea as result of
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tests is s0 small there is no (repeat no) reason to fear any
' hazard from eating fish caught outside Bikini and Enlwetok
- Atolls and (2) atomic experiments are not (repeat not) causing
any special meteorological changes.
AEC reply is signed by its
spokesman Shelby Thompson and is addressed to Prof. Hisamao
. Hatakeyama, Director Japan Meteorological Institute" (JMZ)
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Article continues AEC reply sent in answer to declaration
{NS oe drawn up by JMI general convention held Tokyo May 20. Declara|
tion had been sent to US Weather Bureau which forwarded it to
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on meteorological effects of atomic and hydrogen bombs at
Central Meteorological Observatory on September 24".
Materials
from this meeting will be sent to AEC "to arouse reconsideration
from scientific standpoint”.
4.
Article continues that immediately on receipt AEC reply JMI
held Director's Meeting to decide its attitude and resolved "(1)
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0-<- the sender (AEC was not (repeat not) a scientific body and did
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understand well the meaning of JMI's declara-
tion and (2) it tends to solve problem from a political stand-
point as it includes problems of Soviet Russia and compensation
to sufferers". JMI further decided to send again to AEC
Professor Miyake's report on "man-made radioactive rain which
fell on Japan" and survey report from Shunkotsu Maru.
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concludes "meteorologists hope that. they will obtain another
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AEC for reply.
more sincere reply given from scientific standpoint".
5.
How serious will be JMI meeting September 24 at which entire
controversy will be re-opened and to what extent unfriendly press
will attempt exploit diferencesof opinion, we cannot predict.
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