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Nishihara, Kenji; Yamagishi, Isao; Yasuda, Kenichiro; Ishimori, Kenichiro; Tanaka, Kiwamu; Kuno, Takehiko; Inada, Satoshi; Goto, Yuichi
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 52(3), p.301 - 307, 2015/03
Times Cited Count：17 Percentile：80.88(Nuclear Science & Technology)After the severe accident at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant, large amounts of contaminated stagnant water have accumulated in turbine buildings and their surroundings. This rapid communication reports calculation of the radionuclide inventory in the core, collection of measured inventory in the stagnant water, and estimation of radionuclide release ratios from the core to the stagnant water. This evaluation is based on data obtained before June 3, 2011. The release ratios of tritium, iodine, and cesium were several tens of percent, whereas those of strontium and barium were smaller by one or two orders of magnitude. The release ratios in the Fukushima accident were equivalent to those in the TMI-2 accident.
Ito, Toshimichi; Aramaki, Takafumi; Kitamura, Toshikatsu; Otosaka, Shigeyoshi; Suzuki, Takashi; Togawa, Orihiko; Kobayashi, Takuya; Senju, Tomoharu*; Chaykovskaya, E. L.*; Karasev, E. V.*; et al.
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 68(3), p.249 - 267, 2003/07
Times Cited Count：41 Percentile：62.77(Environmental Sciences)The anthropogenic radionuclides, 
Sr, 
Cs and 
Pu, in the seawater column of the Japan Sea were measured during 1997-2000. The vertical profiles of radionuclide concentrations showed their typical features; exponential decrease with depth for the Sr and Cs and surface minimum - subsurface maximum for the Pu, and there are no substantial differences between the present study and the previous ones. The area-averaged concentrations and the inventories of radionuclides in the Japan Sea are higher than those in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. In the spatial distributions, high inventory area extends and intrudes from the Japan Basin into the Yamato Basin. It is suggested that radionuclides sink by the vertical transport occurring mainly in the Japan Basin then advect into the Yamato Basin after detouring around the Yamato Rise, and finally, they are accumulated in the deep seawater of the Japan Sea.
Iijima, Kazuki; Sasaki, Takayuki*; Matoba, Daisuke*; Dohi, Terumi; Fujiwara, Kenso
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In this study, in order to estimate the on-site distribution, the concentrations of several radionuclides in off-site topsoil were evaluated along six traces of the radioactive plumes, and the characteristic of spatial distribution and depth profile was discussed. The tendency of inventories of Sr-90 and Pu-238 observed in off-site was consistent with that of observed in the previous on-site sampling, indicating that the estimation of on-site distribution of radionuclides based on the off-site was applicable. Concentration of Cs-137 drastically decreased from top of the surface to around 10 cm depth, then gradually decreased, suggesting that Cs-137 was strongly adsorbed at upper part. Surprisingly, the profile of Pu-239+240 was quite different from that of Pu-238, while it was similar to Am-241. It was considered that the behavior of Am-241 was strongly reflected by that of Pu-241, a parent of Am-241, and the deposition event of Pu-239+240 and Pu-241 was different from that of Pu-238.
