Morphological defects in native Japanese fir trees around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Morphological defects in native Japanese fir trees around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

After the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (F1NPP) in March 2011, much attention has been paid to the biological consequences of the released radionuclides into the surrounding area. We investigated the morphological changes in Japanese fir, a Japanese endemic native conifer, at locations near the F1NPP. Japanese fir populations near the F1NPP showed a significantly increas...

Radioactive Cs in the Severely Contaminated Soils Near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Citation: Kaneko M, Iwata H, Shiotsu H, Masaki S, Kawamoto Y, Yamasaki S, Nakamatsu Y, Imoto J, Furuki G, Ochiai A, Nanba K, Ohnuki T, Ewing RC and Utsunomiya S (2015) Radioactive Cs in the severely contaminated soils near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Front. Energy Res. 3:37. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2015.00037 Radioactive Cs in the severely contaminated soils near the Fukushima Daiichi...

Depopulation with rapid aging in Minamisoma City after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident.

Minimal Internal Radiation Exposure in Residents Living South of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Disaster

Following the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, assessment of internal radiation exposure was indispensable to predict radiation-related health threats to residents of neighboring areas. Although many evaluations of internal radiation in residents living north and west of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant are available, there is little information on residents living in areas sou...

Operational level for unconditional release of contaminated property from affected areas around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

This paper focuses on the surface contamination control of slightly contaminated property after the Fukushima nuclear accident. The operational level for the unconditional release of contaminated properties is calculated in counts per minute (cpm) to enable the use of a typical Geiger-Muller (GM) survey meter with a 50-mm bore, on the basis of the surficial clearance level of 10 Bq cm(-2) for (...