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Kawamura, Hideyuki; Furuno, Akiko; Kobayashi, Takuya; In, Teiji*; Nakayama, Tomoharu*; Ishikawa, Yoichi*; Miyazawa, Yasumasa*; Usui, Norihisa*
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 180, p.36 - 58, 2017/12
Times Cited Count：11 Percentile：35.55(Environmental Sciences)This study simulates the oceanic dispersion of Fukushima-derived Cs-137 by an oceanic dispersion model and multiple oceanic general circulation models. The models relatively well reproduced the observed Cs-137 concentrations in the coastal, offshore, and open oceans. Multiple simulations in the coastal, offshore, and open oceans consistently suggested that Cs-137 dispersed along the coast in the north-south direction during the first few months post-disaster, and were subsequently dispersed offshore by the Kuroshio Current and Kuroshio Extension. Quantification of the Cs-137 amounts suggested that Cs-137 actively dispersed from the coastal and offshore oceans to the open ocean, and from the surface layer to the deeper layers in the North Pacific.
Cs released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power PlantMasumoto, Yukio*; Miyazawa, Yasumasa*; Tsumune, Daisuke*; Tsubono, Takaki*; Kobayashi, Takuya; Kawamura, Hideyuki; Estournel, C.*; Marsaleix, P.*; Lanerolle, L.*; Mehra, A.*; et al.
Elements, 8(3), p.207 - 212, 2012/06
Times Cited Count：82 Percentile：92.24(Geochemistry & Geophysics)Present status of oceanic dispersion simulations of cesium 137 (Cs) directly discharged from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant are reviewed using five model outputs and other available informations, focusing on estimations of discharged amount of Cs and subsequent dispersion in a region off Fukushima during March and April, 2011. Common aspects and discrepancies among the simulated results are described. While the discharged amount spreads from about 1 to 27 P Bq of Cs among the estimates, the values obtained from the five models indicate 2 to 4 P Bq. With these total amounts and time evolutions of the discharge rate, mimicking observed Cs concentration near FDNPP, as a source for the dispersion calculation, all the five models simulated the Cs dispersion in the ocean reasonably well corresponding to the observed distributions.
CsKawamura, Hideyuki; Furuno, Akiko; Kobayashi, Takuya; In, Teiji*; Nakayama, Tomoharu*; Ishikawa, Yoichi*; Miyazawa, Yasumasa*; Usui, Norihisa*
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Oceanic dispersion simulations include errors originated from source terms, oceanographic data, etc. In this study, the oceanic dispersion simulations were carried out with five oceanographic data in order to analyze an effect of oceanographic data on Cs dispersion and clarify Cs dispersion in the coastal area and the open ocean. The high-resolution simulation could well reproduce the observed Cs concentration in Fukushima Prefecture and it suggested that directly-released Cs into the ocean dispersed in the north-south direction during a few months after the Fukushima disaster. The relatively low-resolution simulations could reproduce main currents in the North Pacific and they suggested that the Kuroshio Extension played an important role on Cs transport from the coastal area to the open ocean. Moreover, it was demonstrated that Cs was transported from the mixed layer to the deeper layer 1 year after the Fukushima disaster.
Kawamura, Hideyuki; Furuno, Akiko; Kobayashi, Takuya; In, Teiji*; Nakayama, Tomoharu*; Ishikawa, Yoichi*; Miyazawa, Yasumasa*; Usui, Norihisa*
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This study simulates the oceanic dispersion of Fukushima-derived Cs-137 by an oceanic dispersion model SEA-GEARN-FDM and multiple oceanic general circulation models. The oceanic dispersion simulations relatively well reproduced the measured Cs-137 concentrations in the coastal and offshore oceans during the first few months after the Fukushima disaster, and in the open ocean during the first year post-disaster. It was suggested that Cs-137 dispersed along the coast in the north-south direction during the first few months post-disaster, and were subsequently dispersed offshore by the Kuroshio Current and Kuroshio Extension. The Cs-137 amounts were quantified in the coastal, offshore, and open oceans during the first year post-disaster. It was demonstrated that Cs-137 actively dispersed from the coastal and offshore oceans to the open ocean, and from the surface layer to the deeper layer in the North Pacific.
