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This open access book presents the findings from on-site research into radioactive cesium contamination in various agricultural systems affected by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011. This third volume in the series reports on studies undertaken at contaminated sites such as farmland, forests, and marine and freshwater environments, with a particular focus on livestock, wild plants and mushrooms, crops, and marine products in those environments. It also provides additional data collected in the subsequent years to show how the radioactivity levels in agricultural products and their growing environments have changed with time and the route by which radioactive materials entered agricultural products as well as their movement between different components (e.g., soil, water, and trees) within an environmental system (e.g., forests). The book covers various topics, including radioactivity testing of food products; decontamination trials for rice and livestock production; the state of contamination in, trees, mushrooms, and timber; the dynamics of radioactivity distribution in paddy fields and upland forests; damage incurred by the forestry and fishery industries; and the change in consumers’ attitudes. Chapter 19 introduces a real-time radioisotope imaging system, a pioneering technique to visualize the movement of cesium in soil and in plants. This is the only book to provide systematic data on the actual change of radioactivity, and as such is of great value to all researchers who wish to understand the effect of radioactive fallout on agriculture. In addition, it helps the general public to better understand the issues of radio-contamination in the environment. The project is ongoing; the research groups from the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences of The University of Tokyo continue their work in the field to further evaluate the long-term effects of the Fukushima accident.
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Pollution control, Management of specific areas, Manufacturing industries, Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning, International relations, Technology: general issues, Education, Language, Nuclear accidents and agriculture, Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011, Radioactive pollution, Radioactive pollution of soils, Fukushima Nuclear Accident, Agriculture, Radioactive Air Pollution, Störfall, Landwirtschaft, Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (Japan : 2011) fast (OCoLC)fst01797233, Environmental economics, Technology, engineering, agriculture, Nuclear reactor accidents, Environmental sciences, Japan, environmental conditions, Animal ecology, Plant ecology, Ecology, Euthenics, Nature and nurture, Adaptation (Biology), Food science, Marine Sciences, Environmental Monitoring/Analysis, Marine & Freshwater SciencesShowing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?
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Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
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Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: After 7 Years
2019, Springer Nature
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Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: After 7 Years
Feb 22, 2019, Springer
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Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: The First Three Years
May 01, 2018, Springer
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Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: The First Three Years
Mar 18, 2016, Springer
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Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
2016, Springer Japan
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Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
Mar 28, 2013, Springer
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Following the Fukushima nuclear accident, a large volume of monitoring data has been collected about the soil, air, dust, and seawater, along with data about an immense number of foods supplied to the market. Little is known, however, about the effect of radioactive fallout on agriculture, information about which is vital. Although more than 80% of the damaged area is related to agriculture, in situ information specifically for agriculture is scarce. This book provides data about the actual movement and accumulation of radioactivity in the ecological system—for example, whether debris deposited on mountains can be a cause of secondary contamination, under what conditions plants accumulate radioactive cesium in their edible parts, and how radioactivity is transferred from hay to milk. Because agriculture is so closely related to nature, many specialists with different areas of expertise must be involved in answering these questions. In the case of rice, researchers in rice cultivation as well as in soil, hydrology, and radioactivity measurement are working together to reveal the paths or accumulation of radioactivity in the field. For this purpose, the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences of The University of Tokyo has diverse facilities available throughout Japan, including farmlands, forests, and meadowlands. Many academic staff members have formed groups to conduct on-site research, with more than 40 volunteers participating. This book presents the data collected from the only project being systematically carried out across Japan after the Fukushima accident.
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