Assessment of Environmental Radioactivity and Radiation for Human Health Risk

• Other Authors: Tokonami, Shinji (Editor), Kashiwakura, Ikuo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Biography & True Stories; air dose rate; difficult-to-return zone; evacuation order-lifted areas; effective dose rate; external exposure risk; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident; living space; radiocesium; surface soil; Tomioka town; tritium monitoring; fusion test facility; deuterium plasma experiment; monthly precipitation; chemical composition; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant; strontium-90; cesium-137; seawater monitoring; contaminated water; dose assessment; Japan; bottled water; guidance level; WHO; natural radionuclides; artificial radionuclides; effective dose; ingestion; passive radon monitor; development; sensitivity; detection limit; air-exchange rate; total diet study; radioactive cesium; potassium-40; dietary intake; Fukushima accident; 222Rn progeny; 220Rn progeny; CR-39; equilibrium equivalent concentration; deposition velocity; thoron; thoron progeny; indoor environment; measurement technique; radioactivity; residential exposure; dose; gamma radiation; health risk; radon mapping; 226Ra; 228Ra; 238U; well water; radiological hazards; REE and uranium mines; northern Vietnam; radon; hot spring; public health; Namie Town; cesium-134; external exposure dose evaluation; radon concentration; groundwater; residence time; limestone aquifer; Okinawa Island; indoor; environment; nationwide survey; SSNTD; radon potential map; geography information systems; geology; risk; exhalation rate; long-term measurement; seasonal variation; Fukushima; free-roaming cat; reproductive organ; internal contamination
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Ten years have passed since the nuclear accident occurred in Fukushima, Japan, following the Great East Japan earthquake. Thereafter, many people around the world have been concerned about the risks posed by radiation. They still believe that even a small amount of radiation exposure will affect hum...