Toshiaki Mizuno1 Hideya Kubo1 Affiliations Contributions Corresponding author Scientific Reports 3, Article number: 1742 doi:10.1038/srep01742 Received 13 March 2012 Accepted 05 April 2013 Published 29 April 2013 Article tools PDF Download as PDF (536 KB) View interactive PDF in ReadCube Citation Reprints Rights & permissions Metrics This paper focuses on an overview of radioactive cesium 137 (quasi-Cs137 included Cs134) contamination of freshwater fish in Fukushima and eastern Japan based … Continue reading →
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PDF (Size:127KB) PP. 1-9 DOI: 10.4236/ojped.2013.31001 Author(s) Joseph J. Mangano, Janette D. Sherman ABSTRACT Various reports indicate that the incidence of congenital hypothyroidism is increasing in developed nations, and that improved detectio…
Continue readingvia The Tokyo Times / April 1, 2013 / Thyroid conditions among the young population in three Japanese prefectures – Aomori, Yamanashi and Nagasaki – are almost the same as in Fukushima Prefecture, according to a survey by the Environment Ministry. …
Continue readingTetsuji Imanaka, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University / via CNIC Immediately after the occurrence of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in March 2011, there were many things I found difficult to understand. One of them was that virtually no…
Continue readingvia Ex-SKF / March 26, 2013 / Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (JNES), an independent administrative corporation under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, issued the result of its calculation of radioactive amounts released from Fukush…
Continue readingBy Tomoyuki Yamamoto / The Asahi Shimbun / March 27, 2013 / A type of mollusk has disappeared from an area that stretches 30 kilometers along Fukushima Prefecture and includes the site of the crippled nuclear power plant, researchers said. But they cou…
Continue readingvia WDRB.com / March 3, 2013 / It’s been almost two years since the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, but a new report shows there may be some long-lasting consequences for the country’s youngest citizens. The World Health Organ…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 28, 2013 / WHO says “no observable increases in cancer rates above baseline rates are anticipated” inside and outside Japan. Greenpeace is crying foul, NHK quotes experts saying WHO is overly cautious and exaggerating …
Continue readingScience 26 October 2012: Vol. 338 no. 6106 pp. 480-482 DOI: 10.1126/science.1228250 Fishing for Answers off Fukushima Ken O. Buesseler Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA. E-mail: kbuesseler{at}whoi.edu The triple disaster o…
Continue readingby John Downer Stanford University and University of Bristol ABSTRACT Both the legitimacy and governance of nuclear power plants are premised on formal calculations (probabilistic risk assessments) proving that major accidents will not happen. The 2011…
Continue readingby Gregg Webb / via IAEA / September 10, 2012 / The International Atomic Energy Agency on 7 September 2012 launched a database of radiation measurements collected in Japan following last year’s accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Stat…
Continue readingvia DW.de / August 16, 2012 / The effects of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima have now become visible in butterflies. Researchers worry the effects may start to be felt among human beings. The butterflies found to be deformed as a result of radiation …
Continue readingvia the Washington Post / August 15, 2012 / Japanese researchers have found very low amounts of radioactivity in the bodies of about 10,000 people who lived near the Fukushima Daiichi power plant when it melted down. The first published study that meas…
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / August 12, 2012 / Radioactive fallout from the nuclear disaster in Fukushima Prefecture created abnormalities among the nation’s butterflies, according to a team of researchers. “We conclude that artificial radionuclid…
Continue readingvia Fukushima Voice / May 19, 2012 / Consideration of thyroid disorders, pulmonary function, bone marrow function based on the studies from the Chernobyl nuclear accident, etc. Michiyuki Matsuzaki, M.D. Internal Medicine Department Fukagawa Municipal…
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / July 23, 2012 / The Estimated Amount of Radioactive Materials Released into the Air Due to the Accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station: Progress Since May 24, 2012 Tepco July 23, 2012 Total cesium before reevaluation = 20 …
Continue readingWorldwide health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident John E. Ten Hoeve and Mark Z. Jacobson Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C2EE22019A Received 23 Apr 2012, Accepted 26 Jun 2012 First published on the web 17 Jul 2…
Continue readingby Yuri Oiwa / The Asahi Shimbun / July 11, 2012 / Children in Fukushima Prefecture likely received thyroid gland doses of internal radiation, despite earlier government assurances that the levels of such doses were zero, according to an independent st…
Continue readingtranslated by Dissensus Japan / July 10, 2012 Original Text from blog of Great East Japan Earthquake Relief Network in West-Chiba http://2011shinsaichiba.seesaa.net/article/273921452.html * 2012 June 9. As i added data of adults, the original title &#…
Continue readingvia Bellona.org / July 3, 2012 / A collapse of the already tilting reactor No 4 building at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant, ¬atop which sits a spent nuclear fuel storage pool containing 1,535 fuel assemblies – including 204 unused ones – wou…
Continue readingvia TEPCO / June 20, 2012 / We, Tokyo Electric Power Company, recognize ourselves as the main party involved in the nuclear accident triggered by the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyo-Oki Earthquake on March 11, 2011. We have established the “Fukushima Nucl…
Continue readingvia Environmental Science & Technology Gregory A. Wetherbee†*, David A. Gay‡, Timothy M. Debey§, Christopher M.B. Lehmann‡, and Mark A. Nilles † U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Branch of Quality Systems, Mail Stop 401, Bldg. 95, Box 25046, …
Continue readingProblems shut down Fukushima Unit 2 noble gas detection system and spent fuel cooling systems / Enformable.com / February 20, 2012 TEPCO began constant monitoring of noble gas in the PCV of Reactor 2 on February 19th, as they were decreasing the amou…
Continue readingby Edoardo Magnone / ScienceDirect.com / February 15, 2012 / Abstract Suppose there is a scientist that writes a paper for a peer-reviewed journal. How likely is it that a natural disaster will terminate, change, suspend or discontinue some aspect of t…
Continue readingvia whoi.edu / February 16, 2012 / The March 11, 2011, earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent radioactivity releases from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plants resulted in the largest accidental release of radiation to the ocean in history. In a spe…
Continue readingvia GoddardsJournal: Sources cited: DOE: “Supporting Our Nation’s Nuclear Industry” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LkHYerK8y8 DOE low-dose study: http://lowdose.energy.gov/pdf/2011/PNAS.pdf DOE low-dose study press release http://new…
Continue readingKritidis P, Florou H, Eleftheriadis K, Evangeliou N, Gini M, Sotiropoulou M, Diapouli E, Vratolis S. Source NCSR “Demokritos”, Institute of Nuclear Technology-Radiation Protection, Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory, 15310 Agia Paraskev…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / December 20, 2011 / And that’s during the 14 weeks right after the Fukushima I Nuke Plant accident that is “over” now. From a PR Newswire press release that appeared on MarketWatch/Wall Street Journal (12/19/2011): WASHIN…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / December 6, 2011 / The Ministry of Health and Labor, one of whose mandates is to protect consumers, quoted from Asahi Shinbun (12/6/2011), in a typical bureaucratic convolution: ?????????????????????…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / November 24, 2011 / After 8 and a half months of trying to lower the temperature of the Reactor Pressure Vessels (RPV), which by the way are broken and probably devoid of melted fuel, TEPCO announced they would now try to raise the tempera…
Continue readingvia CEREA: Atmospheric dispersion of radionuclides from the Fukushima-Daichii nuclear power plant CEREA, joint laboratory École des Ponts ParisTech and EdF R&D Victor Winiarek, Marc Bocquet, Yelva Roustan, Camille Birman, Pierre Tran Map of ground…
Continue readingtheworld.org / November 15, 2011 / CLICK HERE TO LISTEN The nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant is considered the second worst nuclear disaster in history. A new report by a group of American nuclear experts describes in detail what h…
Continue readingFukushima-Diary.com / November 15, 2011 / Although there are so many people to suffer from nosebleeds, diarrhea, fatigue or coughing,it has been denied, bashed, and labeled as harmful rumor. A twitter user made a map to put each low dose symptom into J…
Continue readingAssessment of individual radionuclide distributions from the Fukushima nuclear accident covering central-east Japan Norikazu Kinoshitaa,1,2, Keisuke Suekia, Kimikazu Sasaa, Jun-ichi Kitagawaa, Satoshi Ikarashia, Tomohiro Nishimuraa, Ying-Shee Wonga, Yu…
Continue readingCesium-137 deposition and contamination of Japanese soils due to the Fukushima nuclear accident Teppei J. Yasunaria,1, Andreas Stohlb, Ryugo S. Hayanoc, John F. Burkhartb,d, Sabine Eckhardtb, and Tetsuzo Yasunarie aUniversities Space Research Associati…
Continue readingThe readings at the Fukushima Medical University close to the damaged nuclear power plant make grim reading Technology Review / November 14, 2011 / Today, an insight into the conditions in the region surrounding the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant soon a…
Continue readingby Lisa Grossman / New Scientist / November 8, 2011 / The Tokyo Electric Power Company in Japan plans to revise its criteria for determining if a damaged nuclear power plant is poised to start a dangerous, “critical” chain reaction of fissi…
Continue readingvia TalkingStickTV: Interview with Marco Kaltofen, PE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, about his research studying airborne radioactive particles from Fukushima and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Related Articles/Videos: Radiation Exposure to the Po…
Continue readingvia houseoffoust.com / October 31, 2011 [Note: A very rough translation into English of the IRSN French study on Fukushima ocean discharges. The original document in French can be found here.] Summary of knowledge on the impact on the marine environmen…
Continue readingby Marco Kaltofen, PE / apha.confex.com / Monday, October 31, 2011: 8:30 AM Marco Kaltofen, PE , Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA The Fukushima nuclear accident dispersed airborne dusts…
Continue readingnnsa.energy.gov / October 21, 2011 / WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated Japan, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is today releasing the raw radiation monitoring data it collected i…
Continue readingby Geoff Brumfiel / Nature / October 25, 2011 / Global data on Fukushima challenge Japanese estimates The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a stud…
Continue readingvia Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Journal / Xenon-133 and caesium-137 releases into the atmosphere from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant: determination of the source term, atmospheric dispersion, and deposition A. Stohl1, P. Seibert2, G…
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