Fukushima Accident: 10 Years After evaluates the post-Fukushima accident situation with up-to-date information, emphasizing radionuclide impacts on the terrestrial and marine environments, and comparing them to the pre-Fukushima accident levels of radionuclides in the environment. This is based on scientific results, as well as knowledge gathered from literature to provide current information on the present status, summarize 10 years of data on the Fukushima accident, and describe the present situation in the local, regional, and global time and space scales. It provides data on radioactivity released into the atmosphere and the ocean, the distribution of radionuclides in the world atmosphere and oceans, and their impact on the total environment, including assessments of radiation doses in Japanese and world populations from consumption of terrestrial food and seafood. It goes on to describe future aspects of the radioactive contamination of these environments and the health implications.
This book informs environmental scientists, academics, and researchers in environmental science and nuclear energy as well as postgraduate students in the field of environmental science, radioactivity, and nuclear energy, on the present situation of radioactive contamination of Japan and in the world.
1. Chapter 1 Introduction - p. 1 2. Chapter 2 Pre-Fukushima radionuclide levels in the environment - p. 19 3. 2.1: Sources of radionuclides in the environment - p. 19 4. 2.2: Atmospheric radioactivity - p. 31 5. 2.3: Terrestrial radioactivity - p. 51 6. 2.4: Marine radioactivity - p. 68 7. 2.5: Developments in radioanalytical technologies - p. 118 8. Chapter 3 Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident - p. 155 9. Chapter 4 Releases of radionuclides into the environment - p. 209 10. Chapter 5 Radioactivity impact on Japan - p. 245 11. 5.1: Atmospheric monitoring - p. 245 12. 5.2: Deposition of radionuclides - p. 264 13. 5.3: Radionuclides in the terrestrial environment - p. 287 14. 5.4: Radionuclides in the marine environment - p. 325 15. Chapter 6 Radioactivity impact on the world - p. 385 16. 6.1: World atmosphere and biosphere - p. 385 17. 6.2: Pacific Ocean and the adjacent seas - p. 401 18. 6.3: Final radiocesium mass balance - p. 453 19. Chapter 7 Radiation doses to Japanese and world population - p. 469 20. Chapter 8 Summary - p. 519 21. Chapter 9 Outlook - p. 533 22. Index - p. 547 23. Index - Continued - p. 557
Fukushima Accident: 10 Years After evaluates the post-Fukushima accident situation with up-to-date information, emphasizing radionuclide impacts on the terrestrial and marine environments, and comparing them to the pre-Fukushima accident levels of radionuclides in the environment. This is based on scientific results, as well as knowledge gathered from literature to provide current information on the present status, summarize 10 years of data on the Fukushima accident, and describe the present situation in the local, regional, and global time and space scales. It provides data on radioactivity released into the atmosphere and the ocean, the distribution of radionuclides in the world atmosphere and oceans, and their impact on the total environment, including assessments of radiation doses in Japanese and world populations from consumption of terrestrial food and seafood. It goes on to describe future aspects of the radioactive contamination of these environments and the health implications.
This book informs environmental scientists, academics, and researchers in environmental science and nuclear energy as well as postgraduate students in the field of environmental science, radioactivity, and nuclear energy, on the present situation of radioactive contamination of Japan and in the world.
1. Chapter 1 Introduction - p. 1 2. Chapter 2 Pre-Fukushima radionuclide levels in the environment - p. 19 3. 2.1: Sources of radionuclides in the environment - p. 19 4. 2.2: Atmospheric radioactivity - p. 31 5. 2.3: Terrestrial radioactivity - p. 51 6. 2.4: Marine radioactivity - p. 68 7. 2.5: Developments in radioanalytical technologies - p. 118 8. Chapter 3 Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident - p. 155 9. Chapter 4 Releases of radionuclides into the environment - p. 209 10. Chapter 5 Radioactivity impact on Japan - p. 245 11. 5.1: Atmospheric monitoring - p. 245 12. 5.2: Deposition of radionuclides - p. 264 13. 5.3: Radionuclides in the terrestrial environment - p. 287 14. 5.4: Radionuclides in the marine environment - p. 325 15. Chapter 6 Radioactivity impact on the world - p. 385 16. 6.1: World atmosphere and biosphere - p. 385 17. 6.2: Pacific Ocean and the adjacent seas - p. 401 18. 6.3: Final radiocesium mass balance - p. 453 19. Chapter 7 Radiation doses to Japanese and world population - p. 469 20. Chapter 8 Summary - p. 519 21. Chapter 9 Outlook - p. 533 22. Index - p. 547 23. Index - Continued - p. 557
