Estimation of the total population moving into and out of the 20km evacuation zone during the Fukushima NPP accident as calculated using "auto-GPS" mobile phone data

Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 196-199

  Hayano, Ryugo S ^a   Adachi, Ryutaro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ZENRIN Datacom Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evacuation; Fukushima dai ichi NPP accident; Reconstruction of early internal dose

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878357523     PISSN: 03862208     EISSN: 13492896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2183/pjab.89.196     Document Type: Article

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