Comparison of radionuclide ratios in atmospheric nuclear explosions and nuclear releases from Chernobyl and Fukushima seen in gamma ray spectrometry

Title: Comparison of radionuclide ratios in atmospheric nuclear explosions and nuclear releases from Chernobyl and Fukushima seen in gamma ray spectrometry

Author: J. I. Friese, R. F. Kephart, D. D. Lucas

Reference: Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry , May 2013, Volume 296, Issue 2, pp 899-903

DOI: 10.1007/s10967-012-2213-0

Keywords : CTBT, Chernobyl, Fukushima, Radionuclide monitoring, Gamma spectroscopy

Abstract: The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty has remote radionuclide monitoring followed by an On Site Inspection (OSI) to clarify the nature of a suspect event as part of its verification regime. An important aspect of radionuclide measurements on site is the discrimination of other potential sources of similar radionuclides such as reactor accidents or medical isotope production. The Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear reactor disasters offer two different reactor source term environmental inputs that can be compared against historical measurements of nuclear explosions. The comparison of whole-sample gamma spectrometry measurements from these three events and the analysis of similarities and differences are presented. This analysis is a step toward confirming what is needed for measurements during an OSI under the auspices of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

ＵＲＬ：http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10967-012-2213-0

Care of children in a natural disaster: lessons learned from the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami

Title: Care of children in a natural disaster: lessons learned from the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami

Author: Takeo Yonekura, Shigeru Ueno, Tadashi Iwanaka

Reference: Pediatric Surgery International, October 2013, Volume 29, Issue 10, pp 1047-1051

DOI: 10.1007/s00383-013-3405-6

Keywords: Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear accident, Natural disaster, Children

Abstract: The Great East Japan earthquake was one of the most devastating natural disasters ever to hit Japan. We present features of the disaster and the radioactive accident in Fukushima. About 19,000 are dead or remain missing mainly due to the tsunami, but children accounted for only 6.5 % of the deaths. The Japanese Society of Pediatric Surgeons set up the Committee of Aid for Disaster, and collaborated with the Japanese Society of Emergency Pediatrics to share information and provide pediatric medical care in the disaster area. Based on the lessons learned from the experiences, the role of pediatric surgeons and physicians in natural disasters is discussed.

ＵＲＬ：http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00383-013-3405-6

Hard Duty: A Woman’s Experience at Chernobyl

Title: Hard Duty: A Woman’s Experience at Chernobyl

Author: Natalia Manzurova and Cathie Sullivan, translators: Masanori Oba, Hisako Oba, and Kentaro Gotoh

Keywords: Experience, Chernobyl

Abstract: This is almost one year anniversary since we started gathering for anti-nukes causes last year. One of the projects that we had in our minds was to inform people about nuclear issues through translation of the works that are done from accidents prior to Fukushima. We believe that both the effort and the work of translation is a social change. Two community educators from Berkeley and NNA members, Masanori Oba, Hisako Oba, and Kentaro Gotoh translated “Hard Duty”, a record of Chernobyl cleaners after the accident by Natalia Manzurova and Cathie Sullivan into Japanese. We honor the work by two authors and the translation team, and share the link with the introduction by Masanori Oba. This work is free to distribute only with credit of the authors and the translators.

ＵＲＬ：www.zenplanning.com/nuke/HardDuty/HardDuty_JP.pdf

http://nonukesaction.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/hardduty_japanese/

Monitoring of Radioactive Substances in Foods Distributed in Kyoto, Japan (1991–2011)—Comparison of Detection Rates and Concentrations before and after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident—

Title: Monitoring of Radioactive Substances in Foods Distributed in Kyoto, Japan (1991–2011)—Comparison of Detection Rates and Concentrations before and after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident—

Author: Yukinori BANNO, Mikio NAMIKAWA, Mariko MIWA, Soichirou BAN, Taichi ORITO, Shunsuke SEMURA, Masahiro KAWAKAMI, Naoya DOI, Shiro MIYAKE, Yasuhiro ISHIKAWA

Reference: Food Hygiene and Safety Science (Shokuhin Eiseigaku Zasshi), Vol. 54 (2013) No. 3 p. 178-187

Doi:http: http://dx.doi.org/10.3358/shokueishi.54.178

Keywords: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident, radioactive substance, radioactive iodine, radioactive cesium

Abstract: Since the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident, radioactive substances have been continually monitored in foods collected in the city of Kyoto, Japan. The importance of the monitoring was increased by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011. Here, the detection rates and concentrations of radioactive substances were compared among food samples collected before and after the accident in Fukushima prefecture.

ＵＲＬ：https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/shokueishi/54/3/54_178/_article/-char/ja/

Retrospective analysis of I-129 for the estimation of I-131 deposition following the Fukushima accident

Title: Retrospective analysis of I-129 for the estimation of I-131 deposition following the Fukushima accident

Author: Yasuyuki Muramatsu, Hirouyuki Matsuzaki, Takeshi Ohno, Chiaki Toyama

Reference: Abstracts of Annual Meeting of the Geochemical Society of Japan

Keywords: iodine-129, iodine-131, Fukushima nuclear accident, deposition, contamination map

ＵＲＬ：https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/geochemproc/60/0/60_189/_article

Distribution of oceanic 137Cs from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant simulated numerically by a regional ocean model

Title: Distribution of oceanic ¹³⁷Cs from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant simulated numerically by a regional ocean model

Author: Daisuke Tsumune, Takaki Tsubono, Michio Aoyama, Katsumi Hirose

Reference: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Volume 111, September 2012, Pages 100–108

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2011.10.007

Keywords: Fukushima reactor accident; Regional ocean model; Release rate; ¹³⁷Cs; ¹³¹I/¹³⁷Cs activity ratio

Abstract: Radioactive materials were released to the environment from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant as a result of the reactor accident after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011. The measured ¹³⁷Cs concentration in a seawater sample near the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant site reached 68 kBq L⁻¹ (6.8 × 10⁴ Bq L⁻¹) on 6 April. The two major likely pathways from the accident site to the ocean existed: direct release of high radioactive liquid wastes to the ocean and the deposition of airborne radioactivity to the ocean surface. By analysis of the ¹³¹I/¹³⁷Cs activity ratio, we determined that direct release from the site contributed more to the measured ¹³⁷Cs concentration than atmospheric deposition did.

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X11002463

THE LESSONS OF CHERNOBYL OR FUKUSHIMA: FORECAST OF RADIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

Title: THE LESSONS OF CHERNOBYL OR FUKUSHIMA: FORECAST OF RADIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

Author: Ivanov V.K., Kashcheev V.V., Chekin S.Y., Korelo A.M., Minyailo A.N., Maksyutov M.A., Gorsky A.I., Tumanov K.A., Pryakhin E.A.

Reference: Journal “Radiation and Lisk” 2011 vol. 20, No.3

Keywords: Chernobyl accident,  estimation of radiation risks,  the 2007 ICRP recommendations,  prognostic estimates of radiological consequences of the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP

Abstract: The following three main questions are considered in the article. First, results of large-scale studies of the National Radiation Epidemiological Registry for 25 years of follow-up after the accident at the Chernobyl NPP and summarized data on radiation risks for emergency accident workers and the population of the most contaminated with radionuclides territories of Russia. Second, verification of ICRP prognostic models (Publication 103) for estimating radiation risk with an allowance for data on the Chernobyl accident. And third, we give prognostic estimates of potential radiological consequences of the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP with the use of the ICRP prognostic models.

URL: http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/uroki-chernobylya-i-fukusima-prognoz-radiologicheskih-posledstviy

WHO: Risk of cancer disease among inhabitants of Fukushima is law.

Reference: RIA news, 28. November, 2012

Keywords: Fukushima, harmful fallouts, biological consequences of ion exposure

Abstract: WHO reports that thyroid cancer incident among adolescence and adults, living in vicinity of Fukushima Daiichi NPP, should be extremely law. If the incidence among people living in areas without radioactive contamination is 0.76% for female and 0.21% for masculine, the same for the ones living in contaminated areas is 0.85% for female and 0.23 for masculine. This is the first of such estimation reported by WHO, and it is based on data from the disasters in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Estimation of thyroid doses and health risks resulting from the intake of radioactive iodine in foods and drinking water by the citizens of Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear accident

Title: Estimation of thyroid doses and health risks resulting from the intake of radioactive iodine in foods and drinking water by the citizens of Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear accident
Author: Murakami, Michio / Oki, Taikan

Reference: Chemosphere, 87 (11), p.1355-1360, Jun 2012

doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.02.028

Keywords: Cancer risk; Fukushima nuclear power plant accident; Ingestion dose; Internal exposure; I-131; Radionuclides

Abstract: …carcinogen, causing thyroid cancer in particular, the…from fallout from the Chernobyl accident of 1986 had…dose-related increase in thyroid cancer ( Cardis and Hatch…Health effects of the Chernobyl accident for most individuals…

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653512002184