Paper on return to an evacuation zone was published

2018-06-08

A paper entitled “Estimation of the cumulative cancer risk of female children attributable to radiocasesium in soil in an evacuation zone, prior to their return”  written by Prof. Yasuda was published in Journal of Radiation Research. This paper pointed out the difficulty in decision makings based on the effective dose and then demonstrated alternative procedures based on the health risk of the most radiologically-sensitive group (i.e., female children).

Awarded by Elsevier Ltd.

2018-04-12

In April 2018, Prof. Yasuda received “Outstanding Reviewer Award” from Elsevier Ltd (the most well-known publisher of academic journals & books) for the remarkable contributions to the reviews of the manuscripts submitted to the journals published by Elsevier.

Awarded by ICRP

2017-10-12

Prof. Yasuda received an award by International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) for the contribution to the ICRP’s work at the ICRP-ERPW2017 conference in Paris, France. Prof. Yasuda worked for making a recent ICRP report Publication 132 “Radiological Protection from Cosmic Radiation in Aviation” as an expert on cosmic radiation dosimetry.

International symposium of the Radiation Disaster Research Project will be held

2016-12-25

The 1st International Symposium of the Radiation Disaster and Biomedical Research Project “Scientific Underpinning for Restoration from a Radiation Disaster” will be held at Hiroshima University on 21-22 February 2017 in cooperation of three Universities: Nagasaki Univresity, Fukushima Medical University and Hiroshima University.