Agricultural Implications of Fukushima Nuclear Accident (IV) After 10 Years

• Other Authors: Nakanishi, Tomoko M. (Editor), Tanoi, Keitaro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Nature 2023
• Subjects: Pollution & threats to the environment; Agricultural science; Biophysics; Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques; Animal physiology; Environmental monitoring; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant; Cs-137 accumulation and movement; Agricultural effects of radio-contamination; Remediation trial of agriculture; Food contamination; Radioactivity distribution; Decontamination procedures; The Great East Japan Earthquake
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Summary

This open access book presents the findings from on-site research into radioactive cesium contamination in various agricultural systems affected by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011. This fourth volume in the series reports on studies undertaken at contaminated sites such as farmland and forests, focusing on soil, water, mountain, agricultural products, and animals. It also provides additional data collected in the subsequent years to show how the radioactivity levels in agricultural products and their growing environments have changed with time and the route by which radioactive materials entered agricultural products as well as their movement between different components (e.g., soil, water, and trees) within an environmental system (e.g., forests). The book covers various topics, including radioactivity testing of food products; decontamination trials for rice and livestock production; the state of contamination in, trees, mushrooms, and timber; the dynamics of radioactivity distribution in paddy fields and upland forests; damage incurred by the forestry and fishery industries; and the change in consumers' attitudes. In the series of this book, a real-time radioisotope imaging system has been introduced, a pioneering technique to visualize the movement of cesium in soil and in plants. This is the only book to provide systematic data on the actual change of radioactivity, which is of great value to all researchers who wish to understand the effect of radioactive fallout on agriculture. In addition, it helps the general public better understand radio-contamination issues in the environment. The project is ongoing; the research groups from the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences of The University of Tokyo continue their work in the field further to evaluate the long-term effects of the Fukushima accident.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (276 p.)

ISBN

978-981-19-9361-9
9789811993619
9789811993602

Access

Open Access