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CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN
Volume 58, Issue 13, Pages 1585-1591Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5521-4
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Fukushima nuclear accident; radionuclides; atmospheric radiation monitoring; xenon; transport pathways
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Aerosol radionuclides (I-131, Cs-134, Cs-137) and gaseous radioactive xenon (Xe-133) were monitored at Xi'an, China following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March 2011. The additional annual effective dose attributable to the Fukushima emissions was much lower than the public annual effective dose from natural radiation, according to Chinese national standards. The monitoring results were compared with data from other countries as well as with the radionuclide concentrations observed in Xi'an after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986. Possible transport pathways of the released radionuclides from Fukushima to Xi'an were investigated. The occurrence of an anticyclone in the Pacific Ocean region and the extended period over which the radionuclides were released made the determination transport pathways complex, but divergence in the plume and easterly flow evidently brought the initial suite of radionuclides to Xi'an.
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