Radioactive cesium-134 and cesium-137 measured by ChIbaraki-Kizuna No.1 in the Paleo-Kantoh great depth submarine basin
- 1. Medical Geology Research Institute, Katori, Chiba (Japan)
- 2. Geo-pollution Control Agency, Japan, Chiba (Japan)
- 3. Chiba Prefectural Environmental Research Center, Research Institute of Environmental Geology, Chiba (Japan)
Description
The 2011 Earthquake off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku caused serious geological disasters, on March 11th. Especially radioactive pollution by the nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has the medical environmental problem. We have been researching the actual condition of that in Higashi-Kanto area by use of RT-30 (made by GEORADIS). In the result, it becomes clear that almost radiogen which diffused at a Higashi-Kantou is cesium-134 and cesium-137, and radioactive pollution is also a kind of geo-pollution. In fact, radioactive ingredients move according to mass transfer and deposition rule. For example, we verified that radiogen move and deposit on a water catchment area at a side road of Higashi-kanto Expressway in the northern Chiba prefecture. So, we must make out a unit of geological layer and characteristic features of radioactive materials when investigate and decontamination. If we do that without knowledge of geological unit and radiogen's attribution, radioactive pollution would become diffuse. Just for the record, this was written in the Katori-Narita-Itako International Declaration (IUGS-GEM). (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- The proceedings of the twenty-first symposium on geo-environments and geo-technics
- Imprint Pagination
- 234 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 23-26
Conference
- Title
- 21. symposium on geo-environments and geo-technics
- Dates
- 24-25 Jan 2012
- Place
- Tokyo (Japan)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Japan
- Country of Input or Organization
- Japan
- INIS RN
- 43078212
- Subject category
- S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; CONTAMINATION; DOSE RATES; FUKUSHIMA-1 REACTOR; FUKUSHIMA-2 REACTOR; FUKUSHIMA-3 REACTOR; FUKUSHIMA-4 REACTOR; GAMMA SPECTROMETERS; MAPS; NAI DETECTORS; RADIATION MONITORING; REACTOR ACCIDENTS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BWR TYPE REACTORS; CESIUM ISOTOPES; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MONITORING; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; POWER REACTORS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIOISOTOPES; REACTORS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SOLID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; SPECTROMETERS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES