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Iodine-129 in water samples collected adjacent to a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho, Japan

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The spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho, Japan, has been undergoing final testing since March 2006. The concentrations of 129I in environmental water samples collected around the reprocessing plant were measured from 2005 to 2012. The 129I concentrations in water samples of the brackish lake adjacent to a plant from 2006 to 2008 which the spent fuel rods were cut and chemically processed, was higher than the background level. The major source of 129I in the lake was dominated by the direct deposition of 129I from the atmosphere than that from the ocean.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Mr. H. Kakimoto and Ms. S. Takaya (Zax Co. Ltd.) for their help with sampling, and we thank Dr. Y. Tennichi of the Kyushu Environmental Evaluation Association for the technical help with sample pretreatment. This work was performed under contract with the government of Aomori Prefecture, Japan.

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  1. Department of Radioecology, Institute for Environmental Sciences, 1-7 Rokkasho, Aomori, 039-3212, Japan

    Shinji Ueda, Hideki Kakiuchi, Hidenao Hasegawa, Naofumi Akata & Shun’ichi Hisamatsu

  2. Kyushu Environmental Evaluation Association, 1-10-1, Higashi, Fukuoka, 813-0004, Japan

    Hidehisa Kawamura

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Ueda, S., Kakiuchi, H., Hasegawa, H. et al. Iodine-129 in water samples collected adjacent to a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho, Japan. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 303, 1211–1215 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-014-3451-0

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