Spatial distribution of radioactive cesium fallout on grasslands from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011

Grassland Science

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 153-160

  Tsuiki, Mikinori ^a   Maeda, Takeki ^a  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant level 7 event; Grassland; Radioactive cesium; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CESIUM ISOTOPE; FALLOUT; GRASSLAND; LIME; LIVESTOCK FARMING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PLANT; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84865626710     PISSN: 17446961     EISSN: 1744697X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-697X.2012.00257.x     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Absalom JP, Young SD, Crout NMJ, et al. (2001) Predicting the transfer of radiocaesium from organic soils to plants using soil characteristics. J Environ Radioact 52: 31-43.
2. Albers BP, Rackwitz R, Schimmack W, Bunzl K (1998) Transect survey of radiocesium in soils and plants of two alpine pastures. Sci Total Environ 216: 159-172.
3. Alexakhin RM (2009) Remediation of areas contaminated after radiation accidents. In: Remediation of Contaminated Environments (Eds Voigt G, Fesenko S), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 178-219.
4. 90Sr as a function of the type of soils in Belarus. J Environ Radioact 34: 171-185.
5. 137Cs in the soil of a cultivated field. Environ Assess 8: 92-101.
6. Bell JNB, Minski MJ, Grogan HA (1988) Plant uptake of radionuclides. Soil Use Manag 4: 76-84.
7. Beresford NA, Barnett CL, Wright SM, Howard BJ (2007) Factors contributing to radiocaesium variability in upland sheep flocks in west Cumbria (United Kingdom). J Environ Radioact 98: 50-68.
8. 137Cs. J Environ Radioact 55: 187-194.
9. 40K soil-to-Plant relationship of in natural grassland of the Giulia Alps, Italy. Sci Total Environ 295: 69-80.
10. De Cort M, Dubois G, Fridman S, et al. (1998) Atlas of caesium 137 deposition on Europe after the Chernobyl accident. European Commission Report EUR 16733, Luxembourg: 176.
11. Fukushima Prefecture (2011a) Vertical distribution of radioactive cesium in grasslands. Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Department, Fukushima Prefecture, Fukushima, available from URL: http://www1.town.bandai.fukushima.jp/data/download/pdf/2011/ganba18bokusoH230922.pdf [cited 22 September 2011]. (In Japanese.).
12. Fukushima Prefecture (2011b) Factor analysis of rice exceeded provisional safety standard of radioactive Cs (interim results). Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Department, Fukushima Prefecture, Fukushima, available from URL: http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/keieishien/kenkyuukaihatu/gijyutsufukyuu/05gensiryoku/240104tyukan.pdf [cited 25 December 2011]. (In Japanese.).
13. 137Cs inventories in a small basin in Central Russia. J Environ Radioact 48: 79-94.
14. Haugen LE (1992) Small-scale variation in deposition of radiocaesium from the Chernobyl fallout on cultivated grassland in Norway. Analyst 117: 465-468.
15. IAEA (2005) Natural activity concentrations and fluxes as indicators for the safety assessment of radioactive waste disposal. IAEA-TECDOC-1464, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 12.
16. Ihaka R, Gentleman R (1996) R: a language for data analysis and graphics. J Comp Graph Stat 5: 299-314.
17. JGS (2011) Natural radiation of Japan. The Geological Society of Japan, Tokyo, available from URL: http://www.geosociety.jp/hazard/content0058.html [cited 28 July 2011]. (In Japanese.).
18. 137Cs losses and erosion rates. Can J Soil Sci 67: 199-203.
19. Kaste JM, Heimsath AM, Hohmann M (2006) Quantifying sediment transport across an undisturbed prairie landscape using cesium-137 and high resolution topography. Geomorphology 76: 430-440.
20. 137Cs in natural landscape and patterns of its distribution in soil toposequence. J Geochem Explor 109: 139-145.
21. Kurokawa A, Sugimoto T (2011) A study on economic loss by shipping suspension of beef cattle derived from the Tohoku Earthquake. J Japan Agric Sys Soc 27: 27-28. (In Japanese.).
22. 137Cs in Austrian Alpine regions. J Environ Radioact 47: 71-82.
23. 137Cs. In: Handbook for the Assessment of Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Using Environmental Radionuclides (Ed Zapata F), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 97-109.
24. MAFF (2011a) Survey procedure of radioactive material in rice. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tokyo, available from URL: http://www.maff.go.jp/j/shokusan/kaigi_siryo/pdf/file2.pdf [cited 4 August 2011]. (In Japanese.).
25. MAFF (2011b) Survey results of radioactive material contents in grasses. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tokyo, available from URL: http://www.maff.go.jp/j/kanbo/joho/saigai/syouhi/bokusou_kensa.html [cited 2 December 2011]. (In Japanese.).
26. Mayama H (2007) Study of environmental radiation in Iwate Prefecture. Ann Rep Res Inst Environ Sci Pub Health Iwate Prefecture 7: 51.
27. McGee EJ, Keatinge MJ, Synnott HJ, Colgan PA (1995) The variability in fallout content of soils and plants and the design of optimum field sampling strategies. Health Phys 68: 320-327.
28. MEXT (2011a) Preparation of distribution map of radiation doses, etc. (map of radioactive cesium concentration in soil) by MEXT. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Tokyo, available from URL: http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/en/1750/2011/08/1750_083014.pdf [cited 30 August 2011].
29. MEXT (2011b) The airborne monitoring results of radiation dose on Iwate, Shizuoka, Nagano, Yamanashi, Gifu and Toyama Prefecture. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Tokyo, available from URL: http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/ja/1910/2011/11/1910_111112.pdf [cited 11 November 2011]. (In Japanese.).
30. 137Cs in soils across a hillslope hollow. Hydrol Proc 8: 531-541.
31. Ohara T, Morino Y, Nishizawa M (2011) Where and how did radioactive materials emitted to the air from Fukushima nuclear power plant deposit? Kagaku 81: 1254-1258. (In Japanese.).
32. Padovani R, Contento G, Giovano C, Malisan MR (1990) Field study of fallout radiocaesium in upland soils. In: Transfer of Radionuclides in Natural and Semi-Natural Environments (Eds Desmet G, Nassimbeni P, Belli M), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 292-300.
33. 137Cs in grass from Chernobyl fallout. J Environ Radioact 83: 253-257.
34. 137Cs redistribution as an indicator of soil quality. Acta Geologica Hispanica 35: 213-217.
35. Sadremomtaz A, Vahabi Moghaddam M, Khoshbinfar S, Moghaddasi A (2010) A Comparative Study of Field Gamma-ray Spectrometry by NaI(Tl) and HPGe Detectors in the South Caspian Region. Caspian J Environ Sci 8: 203-210.
36. 137Cs analysis of the Chernobyl fallout in Greece. Appl Radiat Isot 40 (7): 607-613.
37. 137Cs in soils. Environ Sci Technol 31: 3432-3438.
38. Sutherland RA, de Jong E (1990) Statistical analysis of gamma-emitting radionuclide concentrations for three fields in southern Saskatchewan Canada. Health Phys 58: 417-428.
39. Tsuiki M, Hinosawa Y, Hatanaka R, Kanno S, Maeda T (2011) The air dose rate map of Iwate Prefecture. J Japan Agric Sys Soc 27: 31-32. (In Japanese.).
40. 137Cs deposition and contamination of Japanese soils due to the Fukushima nuclear accident. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (Early Edition), available from URL: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/11/11/1112058108.full.pdf [cited 11 November 2011].