A review of Cs-bearing microparticles in the environment emitted by the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

Y Igarashi, T Kogure, Y Kurihara, H Miura… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Scientists face challenge in identifying the radioactive materials which are found as dotted
images on various imaging plate (IP) autoradiographic photos of radioactively contaminated …

Ten years after the NPP accident at Fukushima: review on fuel debris behavior in contact with water

B Grambow, A Nitta, A Shibata, Y Koma… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Following the NPP accident, several hundred tons of heat-generating corium and fuel debris
have been cooled permanently by millions of m3 of flowing. Knowledge on the interaction …

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident: Understanding Formation Mechanism of Radioactive Particles through Sr and Pu Quantities

J Igarashi, K Ninomiya, J Zheng, Z Zhang… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident released considerable radionuclides
into the environment. Radioactive particles, composed mainly of SiO2, emerged as …

[HTML][HTML] Fukushima and Chernobyl: similarities and differences of radiocesium behavior in the soil–water environment

A Konoplev - Toxics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the wake of Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents, radiocesium has become a
radionuclide of most environmental concern. The ease with which this radionuclide moves …

Occurrence of radioactive cesium-rich micro-particles (CsMPs) in a school building located 2.8 km south-west of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

K Fueda, T Komiya, K Minomo, K Horie, M Takehara… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Radioactive Cs-rich microparticles (CsMPs) released from the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) are a potential health risk through inhalation. Little has been …

Abundance and distribution of radioactive cesium-rich microparticles released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the environment

R Ikehara, K Morooka, M Suetake, T Komiya… - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
The abundance and distribution of highly radioactive cesium-rich microparticles (CsMPs)
that were released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) during the first …

Detecting radioactive particles in complex environmental samples using real-time autoradiography

JWL Ang, A Bongrand, S Duval, J Donnard, EM Jolis… - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
Radioactive particles often contain very high radioactivity concentrations and are
widespread. They pose a potential risk to human health and the environment. Their …

[PDF][PDF] Radiocesium distribution and mid-term dynamics in the ponds of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant exclusion zone in 2015–2019

A Konoplev, Y Wakiyama, T Wada, C Udy… - …, 2021 - researchgate.net
abstract This study analyzes the 137Cs behavior in the ponds of Okuma Town from 2015 to
2019 in the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant (FDNPP) exclusion zone. A decline in …

Particulate plutonium released from the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns

E Kurihara, M Takehara, M Suetake, R Ikehara… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Traces of Pu have been detected in material released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear
Power Plant (FDNPP) in March of 2011; however, to date the physical and chemical form of …

“Invisible” radioactive cesium atoms revealed: Pollucite inclusion in cesium-rich microparticles (CsMPs) from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

K Miyazaki, M Takehara, K Minomo, K Horie… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding radioactive Cs contamination has been a central issue at Fukushima Daiichi
and other nuclear legacy sites; however, atomic-scale characterization of radioactive Cs in …