How "lucky" we are that the Fukushima disaster occurred in early spring. Predictions on the contamination levels from various fission products released from the accident and updates on the risk assessment for solid and thyroid cancers

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 500-501, Issue , 2014, Pages 155-172

  Evangeliou, Nikolaos ^a   Balkanski, Yves ^a   Cozic, Anne ^a   Møller, Anders Pape ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Fukushima; Health impact; Morbidity risk; Mortality risk; Seasonal scenarios

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; DISASTERS; DISEASES; FISSION PRODUCTS; HEALTH RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CONTAMINATION LEVELS; FUKUSHIMA; HEALTH CONSEQUENCES; HEALTH IMPACT; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; MORTALITY RISK; SEASONAL SCENARIOS; WORKER EXPOSURE;

RISK PERCEPTION;

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; IODINE 131; STRONTIUM 90; XENON 133; CESIUM; POLLUTANT;

CANCER; DISASTER RELIEF; FALLOUT; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY RISK; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEASONALITY; WORKPLACE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; DRY DEPOSITION; EARTHQUAKE; FALLOUT; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HEALTH HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLID TUMOR; SPRING; THYROID CANCER; WET DEPOSITION; ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPAN; POLLUTANT; RADIATION MONITORING; SEASON; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; EARTHQUAKES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; JAPAN; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84907678232     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.08.102     Document Type: Article

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