Published January 2012 | Version v1
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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)

Part of:
The proceedings of the twenty-first symposium on geo-environments and geo-technics

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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)

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