A summary of environmental radioactivity research studies by members of the Japan Society of Nuclear and Radiochemical Sciences
Author:
Igarashi Yasuhito1, Tagami Keiko2ORCID, Takamiya Koichi1, Shinohara Atsushi34
Affiliation:
1. Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science , Kyoto University , Asashiro-Nishi-2 , Kumatori-cho, Sennan-gun , Osaka , 590-0494 , Japan 2. National Institute of Quantum Science and Technology , Anagawa 4-9-1 , Inageku , Chiba 263-8555 , Japan 3. Institute for Radiation Sciences , Osaka University , 2-4 Yamadaoka , Suita , Osaka 565-0871 , Japan 4. Faculty of Health Science , Osaka Aoyama University , 2-11-1 Niina , Minoh , Osaka 562-8580 , Japan
Abstract
Abstract
Many scientists who are members of the Japan Society of Nuclear and Radiochemical Sciences have been involved in academic activities in response to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. Projects had been implemented that include determining radionuclides in environmental samples, identifying the distribution of radionuclides by large-scale soil monitoring, tracing radionuclide discharge time series, clarifying environmental dynamics of radionuclides, etc. For the last 10 years, these results have been shared and discussed in annual workshops partly sponsored by the society. This review summarizes the studies yielding these results, and they include reconstruction of the 131I distribution on soil by long-lived 129I analysis, reconstruction of the radioactive plume transport, identification of biological resuspension sources, discovery and characterization of cesium particles, and parameterization of the environmental behavior of radiocesium for dose assessment.
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Subject
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
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