Assessment of Environmental Radioactivity and Radiation for Human Health Risk
Ten years have passed since the nuclear accident occurred in Fukushima, Japan, following the Great East Japan earthquake. Thereafter, many people around the world have been concerned about the risks posed by radiation. They still believe that even a small amount of radiation exposure will affect hum...
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Tokonami, Shinji edt Assessment of Environmental Radioactivity and Radiation for Human Health Risk Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021 1 electronic resource (238 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Open access Unrestricted online access star Ten years have passed since the nuclear accident occurred in Fukushima, Japan, following the Great East Japan earthquake. Thereafter, many people around the world have been concerned about the risks posed by radiation. They still believe that even a small amount of radiation exposure will affect human health. In reality, however, there are many natural radionuclides in the environment, which emit a variety of types of radiation. Although it is well known that there is a positively linear relationship between acute radiation exposure and cancer risk in atomic bomb survivors, the risk of chronic radiation exposure due to natural radionuclides cannot be well explained to people who have lived in high-background radiation areas for many generations. Therefore, more studies in this research field are required to obtain new scientific findings. In order to promote further scientific activities, it will be the best for us to understand the current status of this field by summarizing what we have apprehended so far. This Special Issue will highlight measurement data, methodologies, radiation biology, and risk assessment related to radiation. English Biography & True Stories bicssc air dose rate difficult-to-return zone evacuation order-lifted areas effective dose rate external exposure risk Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident living space radiocesium surface soil Tomioka town tritium monitoring fusion test facility deuterium plasma experiment monthly precipitation chemical composition Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant strontium-90 cesium-137 seawater monitoring contaminated water dose assessment Japan bottled water guidance level WHO natural radionuclides artificial radionuclides effective dose ingestion passive radon monitor development sensitivity detection limit air-exchange rate total diet study radioactive cesium potassium-40 dietary intake Fukushima accident 222Rn progeny 220Rn progeny CR-39 equilibrium equivalent concentration deposition velocity thoron thoron progeny indoor environment measurement technique radioactivity residential exposure dose gamma radiation health risk radon mapping 226Ra 228Ra 238U well water radiological hazards REE and uranium mines northern Vietnam radon hot spring public health Namie Town cesium-134 external exposure dose evaluation radon concentration groundwater residence time limestone aquifer Okinawa Island indoor environment nationwide survey SSNTD radon potential map geography information systems geology risk exhalation rate long-term measurement seasonal variation Fukushima free-roaming cat reproductive organ internal contamination 3-0365-1225-X 3-0365-1224-1 Kashiwakura, Ikuo edt Tokonami, Shinji oth Kashiwakura, Ikuo oth |
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