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PRESS REPORTS HAVE EMPHASIZED DIFFERENCE OF VIEWS BETWEEN
RADIOLOGISTS (INCLUDING TSUZUKI) AND WELFARE MINISTRY OFFICIALS
REGARDING RIKKYO UNIVERSITY REPORT. DR, TSUZUKI HAS URGED GOVERN
MENT TO TAKE PRACTICAL COUNTER-MEARURES AGAINST SITUATION
DESCRIBED IN REPORT, BUT WELFARE MINISTRY RELUCTANT TO TAKE
ANY ACTION WITHOUT FURTHER SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION,
WHILE ADMITTING
REPORT CAN BE REGARDED AS POSSIBLE DANGER SIGNAL, MINISTRY HAS
ASKED JAPANESE ATOMIC CASUALTY COUNCIL TO ANALYZE CHEMICALLY
PRESENT RADIOACTIVITY WITH EMPHASIS ON AMOUNT OF STRONTIUM .
PRESENT, IN PUBLIC COMMENT ON RIKKYO REPORT MINISTRY EMPHASIZED
(1) GOVERNMENT'S DESIGNATION OF MAXIMUM TOLERABLE LIMIT 1S
APPLICABLE ONLY IN THOSE INSTANCES WHERE STRONTIUM AND OTHER
HARMFUL <LEMENTS ARE PRESENT, (2) QUANTITY OF STRONTIUM IS
PROBABLY SMALL IN RADIOACTI ITY RECENTLY DETECTED, AND (3) REPORT
1S BASED ON SURVEY CONDUCTED AT COMPARATIVELY LOW ALTITUDE WHERE
RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION 1S SUBJECT TO VARIOUS METEOROLOGICAL
CHANGES,
FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS STATE TSUZUKI HAS TENDENCY TO: MAKE PUBLIC
STATEMENTS WITHOUT REALIZING ALL ASPECTS OF PROBLEM, TSUZUKI WILL
ATTENDJAPAN'S SCIENCE COUNCIL MEETING OCTOBER 5 AT WHICH TIME
FOREIGN OFFICE THINKS QUESTION WILL BE DISCUSSED, WILL REPORT
FURTHER,
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