Local area distribution of fallout radionuclides from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant determined by autoradiography analysis

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The environmental behavior of radioactive Cs in the fallout from the accident of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has been studied by measuring its spatial distribution on/in trees, plants, and surface soil beneath the plants using autoradiography analysis. The results of autoradiography analysis showed that radioactive Cs was distributed on the branches and leaves of trees that were present during the accident and that only a small fraction of radioactive Cs was transported to new branches and leaves grown after the accident. Radioactive Cs was present on the grass and rice stubble on the soils, but not in the soils beneath the grass and rice stubble, indicating that the radioactive Cs was deposited on the grass and the rice plant. In addition, the ratio of the radioactive Cs that penetrated into the soil layer by weathering was very small two months after the accident. These results indicate that trees and other plants are the reservoir of the fallout Cs and function to retard the fallout Cs migration with rain water. © 2012 Atomic Energy Society of Japan All Rights Reserved.

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Sakamoto, F., Ohnuki, T., Kozai, N., Igarashi, S., Yamasaki, S., Yoshida, Z., & Tanaka, S. (2012). Local area distribution of fallout radionuclides from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant determined by autoradiography analysis. Transactions of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, 11(1), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.3327/taesj.J11.027

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