Overview of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident, with amounts and isotopic compositions of the released radionuclides

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Huge amounts of radionuclides were released into the atmosphere and ocean from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP), operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company, as a result of the reactor accident after the magnitude 9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent gigantic tsunami on March 11, 2011. Here, a brief overview of the FDNPP accident was made, together with the total amounts of released radionuclides, mainly 137Cs, 131I, 90Sr and transuranic nuclides (238,239,240Pu, 241Am and 242,243,244Cm).

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This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research No.24110008 (Yamamoto 2012-2016 from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, MEXT, Japan).

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Yamamoto, M. Overview of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident, with amounts and isotopic compositions of the released radionuclides. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 303, 1227–1231 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-014-3639-3

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Keywords

  • FDNPP accident
  • Overview of the accident
  • Released radionuclides