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Xu Xiao, Hitomi Matsunaga, Makiko Orita, Yuya Kashiwazaki, Yasuyuki Taira, Thu Zar Win, Jacques Lochard, Thierry Schneider and Noboru Takamura
In this study, we aimed to investigate radiation risk perception, mental health, and interest in tritiated water among evacuees from and returnees to Tomioka town, Japan, as well as to evaluate the intention to return (ITR) among evacuees living inside a...
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Jia Li, Wen Yu, Jianhua He and Zhi Zeng
Radiation protection for non-human marine organisms still faces many challenges. To establish a more realistic radiation dosimetry model of cephalopods, this study developed a stylized phantom of neon flying squid (Ommastrephes bartramii) containing ten ...
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Kotaro Ochi, Miyuki Sasaki, Mutsushi Ishida, Shoichiro Hamamoto, Taku Nishimura and Yukihisa Sanada
After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, the vertical distribution of radiocesium in soil has been investigated to better understand the behavior of radiocesium in the environment. The typical method used for measuring the vertical distr...
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Claire Leppold, Shuhei Nomura, Toyoaki Sawano, Akihiko Ozaki, Masaharu Tsubokura, Sarah Hill, Yukio Kanazawa and Hiroshi Anbe
Changes in population birth outcomes, including increases in low birthweight or preterm births, have been documented after natural and manmade disasters. However, information is limited following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Disaster. I...
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Matthew T Davis,Michael D Proctor
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Spent Fuel Pool (SFP) cooling and water replenishment is a concern during some Nuclear Power Plant emergencies. In the presence of intermittent or failed temperature monitoring as occurred at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Hugo et al. [1, 2] ...
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Joseph John Bevelacqua
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Fukushima Daiichi is the most recent in a series of major power reactor accidents. With Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi offers another event in which severe fuel damage occurred, fission products were released to the environment,...
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Bruce Robert Hugo
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Accurate prediction of evaporative losses from spent nuclear storage pools (SFPs) is important for activities ranging from sizing of water makeup systems during plant design to predicting the time available to supply emergency makeup water following seve...
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Joseph John Bevelacqua
Recriticality concerns have been expressed following severe power reactor accidents, involving fuel melting and possible core relocation out of the reactor vessel. Analyses of reactor coolant liquid samples must carefully evaluate fission isotope a...
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Akiko Sato and Yuliya Lyamzina
Since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, tremendous resources have been devoted to recovery, and the Japanese Government is gradually lifting evacuation orders. However, public concerns remain prevalent, affecting some people?s return to a normal life ...
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Natalia Zarubina
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Anthropogenic accidents, which result in high-scaled radionuclides release into environment, show a similar mechanism in the contaminated territories creation. Therefore, the analysis of separate cases, despite their uniqueness, provides considerably hig...
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Igor Brovchenko, Kyeong Ok Kim, Vladimir Maderich, Kyung Tae Jung, Roman Bezhenar, Joo Hyung Ryu and Jee Eun Min
This paper is concerned with the development of a radionuclide dispersion model for the nuclear power plants in the Bohai, Yellow, and East China seas (BYECS) characterized by high turbidity and multi-scale circulations, focusing on the comparison of dis...
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Rafael Caro
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This paper summarizes some of the major improvements and features of the Emergency Preparedness and Response developed to face scenarios with Extensive Damage, aspect that has taken particular emphasis after the events happened at the Japanese Fukushima-...
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Enrico Sciubba
On Friday March 11, at 2.46pm (5.46am GMT), an earthquake of magnitude between 8.9 and 9.1 (Richter scale) hit the superficial submarine crust, about 10 km below sea level and about 120 km south-east of the east coast of Japan. Minutes later, a tsunami w...
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Cantemir Ciurea,Madalina Tronea
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The paper presents a review of the status of regulatory requirements on emergency operating procedures (EOPs) and severe accident management guidelines (SAMGs) in various countries, together with lessons learned from past inspection and review activities...
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Madalina Tronea,Cantemir Ciurea
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The paper presents an overview of the lessons learned from past nuclear reactor accidents and their relevance for the development of nuclear safety culture. Although the term "safety culture" emerged after the Chernobyl accident, the factors that contrib...
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William Orders
In 2015, the IAEA published a comprehensive report, ?The Fukushima Daiichi Accident,? that describes the accident, its causes, its evolution, and the consequences. It also details IAEA?s observations and lessons. The NRC recently completed a ...
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William Orders
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In 2015, the IAEA published a comprehensive report, ?The Fukushima Daiichi Accident,? that describes the accident, its causes, its evolution, and the consequences. It also details IAEA?s observations and lessons. The NRC recently completed a ...
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Hiromi Kawasaki, Satoko Yamasaki, Natsu Kohama, Susumu Fukita, Miwako Tsunematsu and Masayuki Kakehashi
After the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident, demands regarding nursing staff?s management of nuclear disasters have increased. This study aimed to evaluate a basic training program to teach undergraduate nursing students on how to deal with public anxiety ...
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Itaru Miura, Masato Nagai, Masaharu Maeda, Mayumi Harigane, Senta Fujii, Misari Oe, Hirooki Yabe, Yuriko Suzuki, Hideto Takahashi, Tetsuya Ohira, Seiji Yasumura and Masafumi Abe
Predictive factors including risk perception for mid-term mental health after a nuclear disaster remain unknown. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between perceived radiation risk and other factors at baseline and mid-term mental h...
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