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Evaluation of Environmental Contamination and Estimated Exposure Doses after Residents Return Home in Kawauchi Village, Fukushima Prefecture

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† Department of Global Health, Medicine and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
‡ Department of Radiation Medical Science, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
§ Department of Ecomaterials Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Engineering, Nagasaki, Japan
∥ Nagasaki Prefectural Institute for Environmental Research and Public Health, Omura, Japan
⊥ Kawauchi Village Office, Kawauchi Municipal Government, Fukushima, Japan
*Phone: +81-95-819-7170; fax: +81-95-819-7172; e-mail: [email protected]
Cite this: Environ. Sci. Technol. 2014, 48, 8, 4556–4563
Publication Date (Web):March 18, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1021/es404534y
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The external and internal exposure doses due to artificial radionuclides after the return of residents to their homes in Kawauchi Village, Fukushima Prefecture, including the restricted area within a 20-km radius from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP), were evaluated by gamma spectrometry of the soils and local agricultural products. The prevalent dose-forming artificial radionuclides from all samples were determined to be 134Cs and 137Cs (radiocesium). The estimated external effective doses from soils sampled on December 24 and 25, 2012 were 0.0017–9.2 mSv/y in the areas within a 20- to 30-km radius from the FNPP and 0.39–1.3 mSv/y in the areas within a 20-km radius from the FNPP. These levels appeared to be decreasing, despite the distance from the FNPP (median: 0.21 (0.012–0.56) mSv/y), compared to the levels just before the return of the residents to their homes on December 19 and 20, 2011 (median: 0.85 (0.40–1.4) mSv/y). The committed effective doses from the local agricultural samples in Kawauchi Village from May 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013 were sufficiently low, in the range of 18–44 μSv/y for males and 20–48 μSv/y for females (the range was 18–48 μSv/y for children and 25–43 μSv/y for adults), compared to the public dose limit (1 mSv/y, ICRP, 1991), although the potential for radiation exposure still exists. Residents who have not yet returned may be able to return to their homes with a long-term follow-up of environmental monitoring and countermeasures to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure.

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