期刊
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY
卷 171, 期 -, 页码 176-188出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2017.02.013
关键词
Moss; Fungus; Fern; Amphibian; ERICA; Derived consideration reference level
资金
- Research and Development to Radiological Sciences in Fukushima Prefecture
To characterise the radioactive contamination of terrestrial and freshwater wildlife caused by the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, biological samples, namely, fungi, mosses, plants, amphibians, reptiles, insects, molluscs, and earthworms, were collected mainly from the forests of the exclusion zone in the Fukushima Prefecture from 2011 to 2012. Caesium-134 and Cs-137 were detected by gamma spectrometry in almost all the samples. Fungi, ferns, and mosses accumulated high amounts of radiocaesium, as they did in Chernobyl, with Cs-134 + Cs-137 activity concentrations of 10(4)-10(6) Bq kg(-1) fresh mass (FM). Earthworms, amphibians, and the soft tissue of the garden snail Acusta despecta sieboldiana, also had levels as high as 10(4)-10(5) Bq k(-1) FM of Cs-134 + Cs-137. Most of the estimated total (internal + external) dose rates to herbaceous plants, amphibians, insects, and earthworms were below the corresponding derived consideration reference levels (DCRLs) recommended by the ICRP. This suggests that, in most cases, there was little chance of deleterious effects of ionising radiation on these organisms in the exclusion zone for the first year after the accident, though the dose rates were underestimated mainly due to the lack of consideration of short-lived radionuclides. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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