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Abstract

The nuclear disaster medical system in Japan has been greatly re-examined by the revision of the Nuclear Emergency Response Guideline for 2015 and has reached the current system. In the current system, "Nuclear Emergency Core Hospitals” are specified as being located mainly in prefectures with nuclear facilities, and 'Advanced Radiation Emergency Medical Support Centres” are designated to support dose assessment and medical treatment for serious pollution/radiation exposure patients. #"Nuclear Emergency Medical Support Centres” and "Nuclear Emergency Medical Assistance Teams” are designated to provide information/medical care at nuclear disasters nationwide. The two support centres are providing basic training services, such as radiation exposure medicine and patient reception training etc., in various regions and medical institutions. In this paper, I summarize the situation of the establishment of new nuclear disaster medical system in Japan after the accident of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and summarize the activities of Hirosaki University designated as Advanced #Radiation Emergency Medical Support Centres and Nuclear #Emergency Medical Support Centres. Guidelines and laws of radiation emergency medicine have been developed in Japan due to the influence of Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) accident in 1979, Chernobyl NPP accident in 1986, Tokai village JCO accident in 1999 [1]. However, with the Fukushima Daiichi NPP accident following the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred in 2011, the radiation emergency medical system in Japan has been transformed into a system to prepare for multiple disasters (nuclear disasters) including radiation accidents. After the Fukushima accident, the Japan Nuclear Regulation Authority released the #"Nuclear Emergency Response Guidelines" in 2012, and nuclear power companies, local governments and related medical institutions began to develop disaster management systems [2]. Then, according to the revision of the guideline in 2015, the policy toward the concrete development of the medical system at the time of nuclear disaster was shown, and medical institutions development and personnel training for medical staff are now beginning nationwide.

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The Transition of Nuclear Disaster Medical System in Japan; the Change after Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident and the Activities of Hirosaki University by Takakiyo Tsujiguchi in BJSTR