Changes in environmental radiation levels in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

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作者
Tsukada, Mizuho [1 ]
Inoue, Kazumasa [1 ]
Ichihara, Mai [1 ]
Nakazawa, Shuto [1 ]
Sagara, Hiroaki [1 ]
Taguchi, Yoshiaki [1 ]
Fukushi, Masahiro [1 ]
机构
[1] Tokyo Metropolitan Univ, Grad Sch Human Hlth Sci, Dept Radiol Sci, Arakawa Ku, Tokyo 1168551, Japan
关键词
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident; Radiocesium; Absorbed dose rate in air; Car-borne survey technique; Ecological half-life; ABSORBED DOSE-RATE; METROPOLITAN TOKYO; WASH-OFF; AIR; RADIOCESIUM; IMPACT;
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10.1007/s10967-021-07654-7
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O65 [分析化学];
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070302 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Katsushika Ward, located in northeastern Tokyo, had the highest deposition in Tokyo of artificial radionuclides after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. A car-borne survey for measuring absorbed dose rate in air was carried out in the ward in each of the years 2015-2020. The average dose rates measured in 2015-2018 decreased every year but percentage reductions were smaller after 2018 due to the decrease in Cs-134 amount; this radionuclide decays with a half-life of 2.065 years. Its ecological half-life was estimated to be 1.6 y and that value was shorter than the physical decay life (3.2 y).
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页码:411 / 418
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