Shaun Burnie
Shaun Burnie is Senior Nuclear Specialist. He has worked as a nuclear campaigner and coordinator with Greenpeace since 1991, and has visited and worked in Japan nearly 30 years – including in Fukushima since the mid-1990's.
Dr. Angelika Claußen
Dr. Angelika Claußen Angelika Claußen is a practising physician for psychiatry and psychotherapy in Bielefeld, Germany and President of the European IPPNW. She was also chair of the German IPPNW section from 2005 to 2011. Angelika Claußen has coordinated and represented the work of the German IPPNW on the nuclear phase-out for years. She was co-author of the IPPNW study "5 years living with Fukushima, 30 years living with Chernobyl", (2016) and the IPPNW study "Atomic energy - the fuel for the bomb" (2019). In 2020, she published the viewpoint paper "Uranium is also a feminist issue", Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung (https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/41673/uranium-is-also-a-feminist-issue).
Felix Jawinski
Felix Jawinski is a research associate at the Department of Japanese Studies at the University of Leipzig and has been working on the issue of nuclear power plant workers in Japan since 2014. Together with Japanese and international scientists, journalists, activists and trade unionists, he is working on an international study on the work of radiation-exposed workers in nuclear facilities (International Comparative Research on Radiation-exposed Workers in Terms of their Actual Work Conditions, Workplace Safety and their Accident Compensation System, 原発労働者の労働安全・補償制度と被曝労働災害の実態に関する国際調査). He is the translator of Inside Fukushima by Suzuki Tomohiko, which powerfully captures the experiences of a worker at Fukushima Daiichi in the summer of 2011.
Prof. Dr. Toshihide Tsuda
Prof. Dr. Toshihide Tsuda is an epidemiologist and has taught at Okayama University since 1990. His research focuses on environmental epidemiology and occupational safety. Together with his colleague Yorifuji, he conducts epidemiological studies to improve public health care in Japan, Asia and the world. In the published study "Thyroid Cancer Detection by Ultrasound Among Residents Ages 18 Years and Younger in Fukushima, Japan", he and his colleagues demonstrated an increase in thyroid cancer of up to 50 times the expected rate among children and adolescents in Fukushima Prefecture.
