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27 Oct 2016
Research article |
| 27 Oct 2016
Long-term assessment of airborne radiocesium after the Fukushima nuclear accident: re-suspension from bare soil and forest ecosystems
Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Japan
Meteorological Agency (JMA), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS),
Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Masahide Ishizuka
Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan
Yasuhito Igarashi
Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Japan
Meteorological Agency (JMA), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Kazuyuki Kita
Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Chisato Yoshikawa
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
(JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
Masaru Inatsu
Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido,
Japan
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The current study provides the first quantitative budget analysis of radiocesium re-suspended from ground surface contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear accident. It provides useful information to society since our simulation can be used for the long-term assessment of internal exposure to residents in Japan. It also discussed that the re-suspension from forest ecosystems could be a dominant source of suspended radiocesium in the warm season in Japan.
The current study provides the first quantitative budget analysis of radiocesium re-suspended...
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