Temporal change in atmospheric radiocesium during the first seven years after the Fukushima Dai-ich Nuclear Power Plant accident

阿部 智久; 吉村 和也; 眞田 幸尚

Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 21(7), p.200636_1 -  200636_11, 2021/07

https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.200636

After the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, atmospheric radiocesium concentration has been monitored by the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) as a national project to assess its temporal change from August 2011 to November 2017. During the first two years, the atmospheric radiocesium concentration ranged between 10 - 100 Bq m, while concentrations of 10 - 10 Bq m were detected about seven years after the accident. Moreover, two years after the accident, the resuspension factor (RF) ranged between 10 - 10 m and gradually decreased to 10 - 10 m over time. Thus, the time dependence of RF can be divided into two phases, including a rapid decrease for the first two years, followed by a slow decreasing phase. The annual average RF values were also reduced by about half due to decontamination. Furthermore, to investigate the impact of anthropogenic activities on the RF temporal change, the monitoring data were classified into two groups, namely inside and outside the Fukushima evacuation zone. The RF decreased faster in the second than in the first group, which was consistent with the reported data on the time dependence of the air dose rate, suggesting that anthropogenic activities can promote environmental remediation and thereby reduce atmospheric radiocesium content. In addition, the currently observed RF reduction was faster than that reported for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident for the same period, consisting with faster environmental remediation at catchment scale in Fukushima compared to Europe.

Reconstruction of a Fukushima accident-derived radiocesium fallout map for environmental transfer studies

加藤 弘亮*; 恩田 裕一*; Gao, X.*; 眞田 幸尚; 斎藤 公明

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 210, p.105996_1 - 105996_12, 2019/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2019.105996

Ascertaining the initial amount of accidentally released radiocesium is fundamental for determining the extent of radioactive contamination following nuclear accidents, and is of key importance to environmental transfer models. A series of the airborne monitoring surveys of radioactivity have conducted by the Japanese MEXT, and provide basic information on radioactive contamination following the accident. However, there are no clear guidelines regarding the selection of airborne monitoring survey results for estimating the initial fallout input in studies of the environmental transfer of radiocesium. This study reconstructed a fallout map of Fukushima accident-derived radiocesium based on a comparison of the radiocesium deposition densities derived from the third and fifth airborne monitoring surveys.

Using two detectors concurrently to monitor ambient dose equivalent rates in vehicle surveys of radiocesium contaminated land

武石 稔; 柴道 勝; Malins, A.; 操上 広志; 村上 晃洋*; 三枝 純; 米谷 雅之

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 177, p.1 - 12, 2017/10

AA2016-0534.pdf:1.79MB

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2017.05.010

通常の車両サーベイでは、地上1m高さの空間線量率に換算するために、同じ場所で車両の検出器及び車両を移動し1m高さの空間線量率を手持ち測定器で測定し、両者を比較している。車両測定結果を地上1m高さ値に、より正確に換算するため、2個の検出器を原子力機構の専用のモニタリング車の異なる高さに設置し、福島の避難区域等で測定、地上1m高さの測定結果と比較した。その結果、車両の異なる高さに設置した単一の検出器測定値から地上1m高さ値に換算した場合に比べて、車両2検出器を両者とも用いて換算した方が精度が高く、手持ち測定値に対して20%の範囲内にあった。また道路上の放射性セシウムの存在量が周辺より少ない場合は、車両の検出器の測定高さを高くすることにより道路周辺の空間線量率に近づいた。また、車両検出器の設置高さにについてモンテカルロシミュレーションコードを用いて検討した。

空間線量率測定に基づく被ばく評価

佐藤 里奈; 吉村 和也; 眞田 幸尚; 佐藤 哲朗*

no journal, , 

空間線量率測定結果に基づく被ばく線量評価手法について、想定する生活行動パターンに沿って忠実な測定を実施した場合と、広域の測定結果を元に作成された空間線量率分布マップを用いた場合の結果を比較した。また、空間線量率分布マップを用いた被ばく評価結果と個人線量計の値を比較し、推定精度の評価を行った。