Published August 2013 | Version v1
Journal article

Fallout by the disaster of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant at Nagoya

  • 1. Department of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-20 Daiko-minami, Higashi-ku, 461-8673 Nagoya (Japan)

Description

Vast amounts of radioactive materials were released to environment by the nuclear disaster of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant (NPP) in March 2011. A small amount of radionuclides were detected in rainwater even at Nagoya, 440 km far from the NPP. We report here results for fallouts in the unit of Bq/m2 at Nagoya, which are estimated from activity concentrations (Bq/cm3) and precipitations (mm) of rainwaters collected in the period from 20 March to 12 May 2011. -- Highlights: ► Vast amounts of radioactive materials were released from Fukushima Daiichi NPP. ► Low-level activities were included in rains at Nagoya, 440 km from the NPP. ► The first detection in rain was on 25 Mar, 2011, and the maximum was on 18 Apr. ► No artificial radionuclide was observed after 1 May, 2011. ► The activity concentrations was less than that of natural radionuclide, 7Be

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2013.02.018

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.radmeas.2013.02.018;
PII
S1350-4487(13)00118-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Radiation Measurements
Journal Volume
55
Journal Page Range
p. 96-98
ISSN
1350-4487
CODEN
RMEAEP

Conference

Title
7. international workshop on ionizing radiation monitoring
Dates
3-4 Dec 2011
Place
Oarai (Japan)

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