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JOURNAL OF OCEANOGRAPHY
Volume 73, Issue 5, Pages 571-584Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-017-0437-x
Keywords
Cs-134; Marine sediment; Riverine suspended solids; Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident; Sea of Japan
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [24510011]
- Nuclear Regulation Authority
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24510011, 15K00518] Funding Source: KAKEN
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In 2014 and 2015, we examined the spatial distribution of cesium-134 (half-life: 2.06 years) from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) in marine sediments within coastal-basin areas (water depths of 40-520 m) off central Honshu Island (the main island of Japan) in the Sea of Japan. The Cs-134 concentrations in both the surface sediment (0-1 cm depth) and whole-core inventory exhibited wide variations, and were highest at the site closest to the Agano River Estuary area (6.7 Bq/kg-dry and 886 Bq/m(2), respectively). This indicates that Cs-134 in coastal areas was delivered by riverine suspended solids (SS). Given the spatial variation in Cs-134 concentrations, we believe that Cs-134 partially migrated northeastward within -50 km along Honshu Island (at water depths shallower than similar to 140 m), and southwestward, including the Sado Basin area. This is predominantly attributable to the transport of SS by bottom currents and unsteady downward delivery onto the steep slopes of the basin. The total amount of Cs-134 in the study area in 2014 was estimated at approximately 0.6 TBq (decay-corrected to March 11, 2011, date of FDNPP accident).
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