Radionuclides from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in terrestrial systems

Onda, Yuichi*; Taniguchi, Keisuke*; Yoshimura, Kazuya; Kato, Hiroaki*; Takahashi, Junko*; Wakiyama, Yoshifumi*; Coppin, F.*; Smith, H.*

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (Internet), 1(12), p.644 - 660, 2020/12

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-020-0099-x

Land use types control solid wash-off rate and entrainment coefficient of Fukushima-derived Cs, and their time dependence

Wakiyama, Yoshifumi*; Onda, Yuichi*; Yoshimura, Kazuya; Igarashi, Yasunori*; Kato, Hiroaki*

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 210, p.105990_1 - 105990_12, 2019/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2019.105990

Temporal changes of radiocesium in irrigated paddy fields and its accumulation in rice plants in Fukushima

Yang, B.*; Onda, Yuichi*; Wakiyama, Yoshifumi*; Yoshimura, Kazuya; Sekimoto, Hitoshi*; Ha, Y.*

Environmental Pollution, 208(Part B), p.562 - 570, 2016/01

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2015.10.030

Radiocesium wash-off associated with soil erosion from various land uses after the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP accident

Wakiyama, Yoshifumi*; Onda, Yuichi*; Yoshimura, Kazuya; Kato, Hiroaki*

no journal, , 

Slope-scale Cs-137 wash-off processes estimated with erosion plot observations and laser-scanning

Wakiyama, Yoshifumi*; Manome, Ryo*; Onda, Yuichi*; Yoshimura, Kazuya

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Land use controls fate and transport of radionuclides in Fukushima in the terrestial environment

Onda, Yuichi*; Taniguchi, Keisuke*; Wakiyama, Yoshifumi*; Yoshimura, Kazuya; Smith, H.*; Blake, W.*; Iwagami, Sho*; Kato, Hiroaki*

no journal, , 

Distributed modeling of radionuclide washing out from the watersheds in solute and with suspended sediments; Case studies Abukuma River, Fukushima Prefecture and Pripyat-Dnieper river system, Ukraine

Zheleznyak, M.*; Pylypenko, O.*; Kivva, S.*; Sakuma, Kazuyuki; Igarashi, Yasunori*; Wakiyama, Yoshifumi*; Konoplev, A.*; Namba, Kenji*

no journal, , 

We developed physically-based watershed models based on the distributed hydrological-sediment transport model. The model implementation for the experimental plots in Fukushima prefecture was conducted for particulate Cs transport. Also, we developed model that combines the watershed empirical models based on the washing-out coefficient approach and GIS data. The model was tested on the basis of the measurements of Cs concentration in Abukuma river and validated also on the basis of the data sets of radionuclide transport in the Pripyat and Dnieper rivers.

The Impact and fate of fallout radionuclides by Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident in hydrological systems and post-accident environmental recovery

Onda, Yuichi*; Taniguchi, Keisuke*; Yoshimura, Kazuya; Wakiyama, Yoshifumi*

no journal, , 

Identifying the riverine sources of sediment and associated radiocaesium deposited off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture

Chaboche, P.-A.*; Wakiyama, Yoshifumi*; Takata, Hyoe*; Wada, Toshihiro*; Evrard, O.*; Misono, Toshiharu; Shiribiki, Takehiko; Funaki, Hironori

no journal, , 

Spatial and vertical distribution of radiocesium in marine sediment cores of Fukushima Prefecture

Chaboche, P.-A.*; Wakiyama, Yoshifumi*; Takata, Hyoe*; Wada, Toshihiro*; Misono, Toshiharu; Shiribiki, Takehiko; Funaki, Hironori

no journal, , 

The Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) incident, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami in March 2011, resulted in the release of significant quantities of radionuclides into the terrestrial and marine environments of Fukushima Prefecture. While the activity of radiocesium (i.e., Cs and Cs) in these environments has decreased since the accident, continuous inputs through rivers draining and eroding the main terrestrial radioactive plume have been measured, maintaining elevated levels of Cs in riverine and coastal sediment deposited off the Prefecture's coast. Consequently, identifying the sources of sediment is required to elucidate the links between terrestrial and marine radiocesium dynamics and to anticipate the fate of persistent radionuclides in the environment.