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Hirouchi, Jun; Watanabe, Masatoshi*; Hayashi, Naho; Nagakubo, Azusa; Takahara, Shogo
JAEA-Research 2024-015, 114 Pages, 2025/03
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The public living in areas contaminated by nuclear accidents is exposed to radiation in the early phase and over the long term. Even under the same accident scenario, the exposure doses and the effectiveness of sheltering, which is one of the protective measures, vary depending on the meteorological condition and the surrounding environment. The exposure doses and sheltering effectiveness in the early phase are important information for the public and the national and local governments planning a nuclear emergency preparedness. In this report, we evaluate the exposure doses and sheltering effectiveness at sites with nuclear facilities in Japan using OSCAAR, one of the probabilistic risk assessment codes, for five accident scenarios: three scenarios from past severe accident studies; a scenario defined by the Nuclear Regulatory Authority; and a scenario assuming the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident. The sheltering effectiveness differed by approximately 20% among the sites. This was due to the differences in wind speed among the sites.
Hirouchi, Jun; Watanabe, Masatoshi*; Hayashi, Naho; Nagakubo, Azusa; Takahara, Shogo
Journal of Radiological Protection, 45(1), p.011506_1 - 011506_11, 2025/03
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.00(Environmental Sciences)Public living in areas contaminated by nuclear accidents is exposed to radiation in the early phase and over the long term. Even under similar accident scenarios, radiation doses and sheltering effectiveness, which is one of the protective measures, depend on meteorological conditions and the surrounding environment. Radiation doses and sheltering effectiveness in the early phase of nuclear accidents are crucial information for the public as well as national and local governments planning a nuclear emergency preparedness. In this study, we assessed radiation doses and sheltering effectiveness at sites with nuclear facilities in Japan using the Off-Site Consequence Analysis code for Atmospheric Release accidents, which is one of the level-3 probabilistic risk assessment codes, for five accident scenarios: three scenarios from past severe accident studies, a scenario defined by the Nuclear Regulation Authority in Japan, and a scenario corresponding to the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident. The sheltering effectiveness differed by up to approximately 50% among the accident scenarios at the same sites and by approximately 20%
50% among sites under the same accident scenario. Differences in the radionuclide composition among the accident scenarios and the differences in wind speeds among the sites primarily caused these differences in sheltering effectiveness.
Cs occurring near the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power PlantOta, Masakazu; Takahara, Shogo; Yoshimura, Kazuya; Nagakubo, Azusa; Hirouchi, Jun; Hayashi, Naho; Abe, Tomohisa; Funaki, Hironori; Nagai, Haruyasu
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 264, p.107198_1 - 107198_15, 2023/08
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.00(Environmental Sciences)One of the current major radiation exposure pathways from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident-fallout is inhalation of the re-suspended Cs occurring in air. While wind-induced soil particle resuspension has been recognized as a primary mechanism of Cs resuspension, studies following the FDNPP accident suggested that fungal spores can be a significant source of the atmospheric Cs particularly in the rural areas such as difficult-to-return zone (DRZ). To elucidate the relative importance of the two resuspension phenomena, we propose a model simulating resuspension of Cs as soil particles and fungal spores, and applied it to DRZ. Our model's calculation showed that soil particle resuspension was responsible for the surface-air Cs observed during winter-spring, but could not account for the higher Cs concentrations observed in summer-autumn. The higher concentrations in the summer-autumn were in general reproduced by implementing fungal spore Cs emission, that replenished low soil particle Cs resuspension in that period. According to our model's concept, Cs accumulation in fungal spores and high spore emission rate characterized by the rural environment were likely responsible for the abundance of spore Cs in the air. It was inferred that the influence of the fungal spores on the atmospheric Cs would last longer since un-decontaminated forests still exist in DRZ.
Takei, Nahoko; Ozeki, Takahisa; Smolyakov, A. I.*; Isayama, Akihiko; Hayashi, Nobuhiko; Iio, Shunji*; Shimada, Ryuichi*
Journal of Plasma and Fusion Research SERIES, Vol.5, p.386 - 389, 2002/00
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Hayashi, Naho; Nagakubo, Azusa; Takahara, Shogo
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Nagakubo, Azusa; Hayashi, Naho; Matsui, Yasuto*; Hirouchi, Jun; Yoneda, Minoru*; Takahara, Shogo
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Hirouchi, Jun; Watanabe, Masatoshi*; Hayashi, Naho; Nagakubo, Azusa; Matsui, Yasuto*; Yoneda, Minoru*; Takahara, Shogo
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Nagakubo, Azusa; Hayashi, Naho; Hirouchi, Jun; Matsui, Yasuto*; Yoneda, Minoru*; Takahara, Shogo
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In the residential environment after a nuclear power plant accident, the effects of diffusion and deposition of radionuclides have been considered for exposure due to the entry of outdoor resuspended radionuclides into the indoor environment. In practice, however, resuspension of deposited particles also occurs. In this study, the resuspension coefficient, defined as the ratio of the airborne concentration to the floor surface deposition density, was obtained experimentally to construct a resuspension model for indoor deposited particles. In the experiment, the resuspension coefficient was obtained by spreading test dust on the flooring of a family home and measuring the concentration of resuspended particles when disturbances such as the operation of air conditioning and human movement were applied. The results showed that the resuspension coefficient ranged from 1.0e-5 to 1.0 (m-1) depending on the type of disturbance and particle size. This work was supported by Research Project on the Health Effects of Radiation organized by Ministry of the Environment, Japan.
Hayashi, Naho; Nagakubo, Azusa; Hirouchi, Jun; Matsui, Yasuto*; Yoneda, Minoru*; Takahara, Shogo
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Hirouchi, Jun; Watanabe, Masatoshi*; Hayashi, Naho; Nagakubo, Azusa; Matsui, Yasuto*; Yoneda, Minoru*; Takahara, Shogo
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Takahara, Shogo; Nagakubo, Azusa; Hirouchi, Jun; Hayashi, Naho; Matsui, Yasuto*; Yoneda, Minoru*
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Kita, Kazuyuki*; Hayashi, Naho; Igarashi, Yasuhito*; Hama, Kenzo*; Zaizen, Yuji*; Sekiyama, Tsuyoshi*; Adachi, Koji*; Yoshida, Naohiro*; Toyoda, Sakae*; Hosaka, Kentaro*; et al.
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