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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2015 The accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011, caused by an earthquake and a subsequent tsunami, resulted in a failure of the power systems that are needed to cool the reactors at the plant.
Sanjeev Gupta
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) accident in March of 2011 released substantial amounts of radionuclides into the environment. We collected 4,957 deciduous teeth formed in children before the Fukushima accident to obtain precise control ...
Atsushi Takahashi +19 more
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Multi-unit risk assessment of nuclear power plants: Current status and issues
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2018 After the Fukushima-Daiichi accident in 2011, the multi-unit risk, i.e., the risk due to several nuclear power plants (NPPs) in a site has become an important issue in several countries such as Korea, Canada, and China.
Joon-Eon Yang
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PLoS ONE, 2020 It has been almost 10 years since the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March 2011. This study elucidates changes in the mental states of mothers and children residing in low-dose radiation contaminated
Yuji Tsutsui +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2015 We conducted a survey among nurses who were working at the Fukushima Medical University Hospital at the time of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident to clarify the factors associated with their intention to leave their jobs during the ...
Yoshinobu Sato +9 more
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Eleven years of community efforts for the recovery from the nuclear disaster
Environmental Advances, 2023 Eleven years have passed since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPP) in 2011. Since the accident, Nagasaki University (Nagasaki, Japan) has been assisting the reconstruction efforts of Kawauchi Village, Fukushima Prefecture,
Noboru Takamura +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2014 BackgroundA possible increase in thyroid cancer in the young represents the most critical health problem to be considered after the nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan (March 2011), which is an important lesson from the Chernobyl disaster (April 1986 ...
Hajime Watanobe +7 more
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2019 A large amount of radioactive material was released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) in 2011 and dispersed into the environment. Though seven years have passed since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, some parts of ...
Sora Kim +5 more
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Concentration of strontium-90 at selected hot spots in Japan. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 This study is dedicated to the environmental monitoring of radionuclides released in the course of the Fukushima nuclear accident. The activity concentrations of β(-)-emitting (90)Sr and β(-)/γ-emitting (134)Cs and (137)Cs from several hot spots in Japan
Georg Steinhauser +2 more
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Dosimetry of external population exposure: a comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents
Радиационная гигиена, 2020 The paper is devoted to comparing the models and the doses of the population external exposure from radioactive fallout after the accident at the Chernobyl and Fukushima-1 NPPs estimated with their help. In the case of the Fukushima-1 accident, the model
V. Yu. Golikov
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