scholarly journals Internal Radiation Exposure After the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster

JAMA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 308 (7) ◽  
pp. 669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masaharu Tsubokura ◽  
Stuart Gilmour ◽  
Kyohei Takahashi ◽  
Tomoyoshi Oikawa ◽  
Yukio Kanazawa
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Radiation Exposure ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Internal Radiation

Measurement of Internal Radiation Exposure among Decontamination Workers in Villages near the Crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

2013 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masaharu Tsubokura ◽  
Masahiko Nihei ◽  
Katsumi Sato ◽  
Shin Masaki ◽  
Yu Sakuma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Radiation Exposure ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Internal Radiation ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi

scholarly journals Internal Radiation Exposure Dose in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture after the Accident at Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. e114407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Makiko Orita ◽  
Naomi Hayashida ◽  
Hiroshi Nukui ◽  
Naoko Fukuda ◽  
Takashi Kudo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Radiation Exposure ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Exposure Dose ◽  
Internal Radiation ◽  
Fukushima Prefecture ◽  
Radiation Exposure Dose

scholarly journals Minimal Internal Radiation Exposure in Residents Living South of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Disaster

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. e0140482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junichi Akiyama ◽  
Shigeaki Kato ◽  
Masaharu Tsubokura ◽  
Jinichi Mori ◽  
Tetsuya Tanimoto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Radiation Exposure ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Internal Radiation ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi

Internal radiation exposure of Ground Self-Defense Force members involved in the management of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yutaka Naoi, MD ◽  
Akira Fujikawa, MD ◽  
Yukishige Kyoto, MD ◽  
Naoaki Kunishima, MD ◽  
Masahiro Ono, RT ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Radiation Exposure ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Internal Exposure ◽  
Internal Radiation ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Radiation Contamination ◽  
Medical Examinations

When the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011, the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) was dispatched nationally to Northeast area in Japan. The highly trained GSDF members were simultaneously assigned to various missions for the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants disaster. The missions of GSDF terminated on August 31, 2011. Special medical examinations were conducted for the members as they returned to each military unit. GSDF members who were assigned to the nuclear power plant were at risk of radiation exposure; therefore, pocket dosimeters were used to assess external radiation exposure. A few months after the mission was terminated, measurements of internal radiation exposure were performed. This is the first report of the internal exposure of GSDF members who worked in the restricted radiation contamination area. Here, we report the amounts of internal and external exposure of and the equipment used by the GSDF members.

scholarly journals Risk perceptions regarding radiation exposure among Japanese schoolteachers living around the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant after the Fukushima accident

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. e0212917 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroko Hori ◽  
Makiko Orita ◽  
Yasuyuki Taira ◽  
Takashi Kudo ◽  
Noboru Takamura
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Radiation Exposure ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Fukushima Accident

Issues Facing Voluntary Evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident Based on the Collection and Analysis of Cases of Voluntary Evacuation

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (sp) ◽  
pp. 755-769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kota Tomoyasu ◽  
◽  
Reo Kimura ◽  
Hitomi Mashima ◽  
Ikuno Kazama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Radiation Exposure ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant Accident ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi ◽  
Effects Of Radiation

Although over three years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake, it is estimated that there remain approximately 135,000 evacuees from the nuclear power plant accident, 81,000 of whom had been living in areas under evacuation orders and 54,000 of whom had been living outside these areas (i.e., voluntary evacuees). However, the lived experience of such voluntary evacuees has been uncertain, as it is not possible to identify them. Consequently, it has not been possible to clarify the anxieties they harbor as they continue their extended existence as evacuees or to determine the issues they face in reconstructing their lives, making it difficult to extend suitable assistance measures. In this study, we worked with NHK to conduct a survey of voluntary evacuees. A list of interviewees compiled by NHK reporters was used to survey voluntary evacuees, who are difficult to identify. By analyzing the collected cases, we examined issues faced by “voluntary evacuees.” The results showed that the majority of the voluntary evacuees in this survey were mothers who had evacuated with their young children (but without their spouses) and who felt that they had had to evacuate due to anxieties about the effects of radiation exposure on their children’s growth. They tended to feel that it was difficult to return to their former areas of residence and that they had no choice except to continue living as evacuees. Furthermore, there were cases in which couples that had previously been living together had separated for reasons of work or place of occupation and had been forced into situations where they were obliged to economically support two households, with adverse effects on their budgets, minds, and bodies. In addition, the nuclear power plant accident made it difficult for them to decide where to base themselves in the future; in some cases, evacuees returned to their pre-disaster areas of residence only to evacuate again. Against the designation “voluntary,” the voluntary evacuees in this survey lived under circumstances in which they felt that they had had no choice but to evacuate; in enduring the difficulties of evacuation, they did not feel they had acted according to their voluntary will. This points to the need to implement effective assistance.

Public Health Concerns on Radiation Exposure After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (sp) ◽  
pp. 716-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reiko Kanda ◽  
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Satsuki Tsuji ◽  
Hidenori Yonehara ◽  
Masami Torikoshi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Radiation Exposure ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Internal Exposure ◽  
Dose Measurement ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant Accident ◽  
Media Reports

This study analyzes data from telephone consultations made with a research institution during approximately one year following the March 11, 2011, Fukushima, Japan, Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. Data was correlated with newspaper and online media coverage. During the analysis, many calls for consultation concerned aspects of daily life such as food, clothing, and housing and to radiation exposure during the accident. As the year of study went on, the proportion of consultation on daily life changed to more technical topics, such as dose measurement, scientific knowledge, natural radiation, and Russia’s Chernobyl accident. The topic of “children” raised the greatest number of consultations over the entire period; 20–40% of callers inquiring about soil, dose measurement and internal exposure asked also about children. Media reports on the topics consulted on were few except for those on dose measurement. The proportion of consultations on children and dose measurement may have been raised due to media reports circulating at about the same time. We concluded that it is important in postaccident risk communication that information related to daily living – especially protective measures that could be taken – and to effects on children be provided efficiently and at an appropriate timing.

RADIATION EXPOSURE OF THE POPULATION FROM 222Rn AND OTHER NATURAL RADIONUCLIDES AROUND MOCHOVCE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, SLOVAKIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 177 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 207-212
Author(s):  
Martin Bulko ◽  
Karol Holý ◽  
Žofia Pohronská ◽  
Monika Műllerová ◽  
Radoslav Böhm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Radiation Exposure ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Natural Radionuclides

scholarly journals Radiation dose rates now and in the future for residents neighboring restricted areas of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

2014 ◽  
Vol 111 (10) ◽  
pp. E914-E923 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kouji H. Harada ◽  
Tamon Niisoe ◽  
Mie Imanaka ◽  
Tomoyuki Takahashi ◽  
Katsumi Amako ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Radiation Dose ◽  
Radiation Exposure ◽  
Dose Rate ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Solid Cancer ◽  
External Dose ◽  
Dose Rates ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi

Radiation dose rates were evaluated in three areas neighboring a restricted area within a 20- to 50-km radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in August–September 2012 and projected to 2022 and 2062. Study participants wore personal dosimeters measuring external dose equivalents, almost entirely from deposited radionuclides (groundshine). External dose rate equivalents owing to the accident averaged 1.03, 2.75, and 1.66 mSv/y in the village of Kawauchi, the Tamano area of Soma, and the Haramachi area of Minamisoma, respectively. Internal dose rates estimated from dietary intake of radiocesium averaged 0.0058, 0.019, and 0.0088 mSv/y in Kawauchi, Tamano, and Haramachi, respectively. Dose rates from inhalation of resuspended radiocesium were lower than 0.001 mSv/y. In 2012, the average annual doses from radiocesium were close to the average background radiation exposure (2 mSv/y) in Japan. Accounting only for the physical decay of radiocesium, mean annual dose rates in 2022 were estimated as 0.31, 0.87, and 0.53 mSv/y in Kawauchi, Tamano, and Haramachi, respectively. The simple and conservative estimates are comparable with variations in the background dose, and unlikely to exceed the ordinary permissible dose rate (1 mSv/y) for the majority of the Fukushima population. Health risk assessment indicates that post-2012 doses will increase lifetime solid cancer, leukemia, and breast cancer incidences by 1.06%, 0.03% and 0.28% respectively, in Tamano. This assessment was derived from short-term observation with uncertainties and did not evaluate the first-year dose and radioiodine exposure. Nevertheless, this estimate provides perspective on the long-term radiation exposure levels in the three regions.

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