Fate and transport of radiocesium in river systems of Fukushima

Iijima, Kazuki  ; Kitamura, Akihiro   ; Miyahara, Kaname  

Understandings of transport behaviour of radiocesium in the environment were overviewed, and distribution of other radionuclides was compared to that of radiocesium. Annual discharge of radiocesium from forest with soil particles and fine litter were around 0.1% of those of initially deposited and independent to vegetation and slope if there was enough litter and small plants. In the stream water taken nearby the flowing out point showed higher concentration of dissolved radiocesium that that of groundwater, suggesting that dissolved radiocesium was generated due to the degradation of litter or the desorption from soil and dissolved. The concentration of dissolved radiocesium in river water was lower than 1 Bq/L in all river systems. Since the direction dependency on the off-site distribution of these radionuclides were similar to that of observed in the FDNPS site, the estimation of the on-site distribution based on the off-site one was considered to be available.