In environmental remediation after nuclear accidents, radioactive wastes have to be appropriately managed in existing exposure situations with contamination resulting from the emission of radionuclides by such accidents. In this paper, a framework of radiation protection from radioactive waste management in existing exposure situations for application to the practical and reasonable waste manag...

On 11 March 2011, the Fukushima nuclear disaster shocked the world. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake induced a tsunami, which then shut down the power supply of cooling system of the nuclear plant. The nuclear reactor exploded due to overheat and hydrogen accumulation. Radioactive materials were released and plutonium was detected positive in the soil of the power plant. It is the most severe nuclear...

The standard therapy for thyroid cancer is total or near total thyroidectomy, followed by the administration of radioactive iodine for remnant ablation or residual disease. Patients with radioiodine therapy are predisposed to second malignant neoplasms in organs such as central nervous system (CNS), breast, prostate, kidney, bone marrow, salivary gland, and digestive tract. Exposure to carcinog...

Acute Intake of Radionuclides Immediately After the Incident as theMain Contributor of the Internal Radiation Exposure After FukushimaDaiichi Nuclear Disaster The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and release of radioactive materials, raising serious health concerns in nearby residents. We recently reported that levels of internal radiation...

The TIRAMISU collaboration gathers expertise from biologists, physicists, radiochemists and geologists within the Zone-Atelier Territoires Uranifères (ZATU) in France to study response of microorganisms living naturally radioactive mineral springs. Mineral springs are isolated ecosystems, extremely stable over geological time scales, which display different physicochemical radiological paramete...