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Data description paper
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07 Jun 2021
Data description paper |
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Radionuclide contamination in flood sediment deposits in the coastal rivers draining the main radioactive pollution plume of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan (2011–2020)
Olivier Evrard
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL),
Unité Mixte de Recherche 8212 (CEA/CNRS/UVSQ), Université
Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Caroline Chartin
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL),
Unité Mixte de Recherche 8212 (CEA/CNRS/UVSQ), Université
Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Earth
and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve,
Belgium
J. Patrick Laceby
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL),
Unité Mixte de Recherche 8212 (CEA/CNRS/UVSQ), Université
Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP), Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Yuichi Onda
Centre for Research in Isotopes and Environmental Dynamics (CRIED),
Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan
Yoshifumi Wakiyama
Institute of Environmental Radioactivity (IER), University of
Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan
Atsushi Nakao
Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural
University, Kyoto, Japan
Olivier Cerdan
Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM),
Département Risques et Prévention, Orléans, France
Hugo Lepage
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL),
Unité Mixte de Recherche 8212 (CEA/CNRS/UVSQ), Université
Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire
(IRSN), PSE-ENV, SRTE/LRTA, SAME/LERCA, BP 3, 13115, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance,
France
Hugo Jaegler
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL),
Unité Mixte de Recherche 8212 (CEA/CNRS/UVSQ), Université
Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire
(IRSN), PSE-ENV, SRTE/LRTA, SAME/LERCA, BP 3, 13115, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance,
France
Rosalie Vandromme
Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM),
Département Risques et Prévention, Orléans, France
Irène Lefèvre
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL),
Unité Mixte de Recherche 8212 (CEA/CNRS/UVSQ), Université
Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Philippe Bonté
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL),
Unité Mixte de Recherche 8212 (CEA/CNRS/UVSQ), Université
Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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This dataset provides an original compilation of radioactive dose rates and artificial radionuclide activities in sediment deposited after floods in the rivers draining the main radioactive pollution plume in Fukushuma, Japan, between November
2011 and November 2020. In total, 782 sediment samples collected from 27 to 71 locations during 16 fieldwork campaigns were analysed. This provides a unique post-accidental dataset to better understand the environmental fate of radionuclides.
This dataset provides an original compilation of radioactive dose rates and artificial...
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