Preliminary Estimation of Release Amounts of 131I and 137Cs Accidentally Discharged from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Atmosphere

By M. Chino, H. Nakayama, H. Nagai, H. Terada, G. Katata, H. Yamazawa. 2011

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• Preliminary Numerical Experiments on Oceanic Dispersion of 131I and 137Cs Discharged into the Ocean because of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Disaster (2011, methodology): “The released amounts of 131I and 137Cs discharged into the atmosphere were given by Chino et al.11) It can be seen from Fig.”
• Cesium-137 deposition and contamination of Japanese soils due to the Fukushima nuclear accident (2011, background): “Although the estimate for the larger domain is quite uncertain because it is constrained only by measurements in Japan, these numbers are consistent with a suspected total release of about 12 PBq (137)Cs (2).”
• Estimation of Errors in the Inverse Modeling of Accidental Release of Atmospheric Pollutant: Application to the Reconstruction of the Cesium-137 and Iodine-131 Source Terms from the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant (2012, result): “That is the main reason why Nuclear Safety agencies (such as the Japanese Safety Agency or the French Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN)) have provided first estimates constrained by the first observations (as from Chino et al. [2011], who used 17 observations to reconstruct a fi”
• An inverse modeling method to assess the source term of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident using gamma dose rate observations (2013, methodology): “The estimates of emissions obtained using simple methods were first proposed by Chino et al. (2011) and later reassessed by Katata et al. (2012) and Terada et al. (2012).”
• Comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents: a review of the environmental impacts. (2014, methodology): “…has been found to be inconsist be due to chemical fractionation between Cs and Te in the environment. d Estimated from the 137Cs source term from Chino et al. (2011) and the measured 132Te/137 e Based on the 131I data from Chino et al. (2011) and the measured atomic ratio for 129I/131I f Most…”
• Detailed source term estimation of the atmospheric release for the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident by coupling simulations of an atmospheric dispersion model with an improved deposition scheme and oceanic dispersion model (2014, methodology): “Chino et al. (2011) carried out the first estimation of the source term of (131)I and (137)Cs from 12 March to 5 April 2011. Katata et al. (2012a) estimated a more detailed source term for 15 March 2011 when the highest radiological polluted area was created. Katata et al. (2012b) revised the source”
• Atmospheric behavior, deposition, and budget of radioactive materials from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 (2011, background): “…at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (FDNPP) accompanied the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011, and as a result, enormous amounts of radionuclides were emitted into the atmosphere and the ocean [Chino et al., 2011; Butler, 2011; Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, 2011].”
• Xenon-133 and caesium-137 releases into the atmosphere from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant: determination of the source term, atmospheric dispersion, and deposition (2011, background): “…of the estimated Chernobyl emission of 85 PBq (NEA, 2002).10 Our total a posteriori emission is lower than the first estimate of 66 PBq published by the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (2011) on 22 March, but considerably higher than the estimate of Chino et al. (2011) of 13 PBq.”
• Radioactivity release from the Fukushima accident and its consequences: A review (2014, methodology): “…the beach of the Pacific Ocean e and Fukushima’s meteorological conditions, including wind direction that mostly flows towards the Pacific Ocean, more than 80% of the radioactivity released from the crippled reactors flowed into the sea (Hoeve and Jacobson, 2012; Christoudias and Lelieveld, 2013).”