IMPACT ON ABSORBED DOSE RATE IN AIR IN THE IZU ISLANDS FROM LONG HALF-LIFE RADIONUCLIDES RELEASED BY THE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENT

Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2018 Dec 1;182(3):335-344. doi: 10.1093/rpd/ncy070.

Abstract

Car-borne surveys were carried out on eight islands of the Izu Islands located 339-570 km southwest of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The mean dose rates measured in 2015, 2016 or 2017 on each island were from 12 to 47 nGy h-1, meaning that the contribution ratios of artificial radionuclides were 5-31%. Based on the environmental half-life for long half-life radionuclides (134Cs + 137Cs) measured on Izu-Oshima (3.1 y), the mean dose rates in March 2011 were estimated to be 15-53 nGy h-1 and the contribution ratios of artificial radionuclides were 11-55%. The estimated annual external effective doses were 0.06-0.21 mSv which were 13-44% of the worldwide average (0.48 mSv).

MeSH terms

  • Air Pollutants, Radioactive / analysis*
  • Cesium Radioisotopes / analysis*
  • Fukushima Nuclear Accident*
  • Half-Life
  • Humans
  • Islands
  • Japan
  • Nuclear Power Plants*
  • Radiation Dosage
  • Radiation Monitoring*

Substances

  • Air Pollutants, Radioactive
  • Cesium Radioisotopes
  • Cesium-137
  • Cesium-134