The Importance of Tokyo Bay as a Reservoir for Radioactive Materials Precipitated in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area
The Tokyo metropolitan area is located in the Kanto Plain, which is found in roughly the center of Japan. The area of high-concentration pollution surrounding Tokyo are the catchments of rivers flowing into Tokyo Bay. Radioactive nuclides deposited there
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Radioactive Contamination of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area Five Years after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
Radioactive Contamination of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area
Hideo Yamazaki
Radioactive Contamination of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area Five Years after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
Hideo Yamazaki Retired Kindai University Naganohara, Japan
ISBN 978-981-15-7367-5 ISBN 978-981-15-7368-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7368-2
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Preface
When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster struck, a famous Japanese professor specialized in nuclear engineering, who also served as a member of a committee in the Japanese government, asserted that such a stupid accident would not occur in Japanese nuclear power plants. Twenty-five years later, the Fukushima nuclear disaster happened, and ANZENSHINWA in Japan collapsed, which is a Japanese word meaning safety myth. This accident was more significant than the Chernobyl accident in terms of emissions of radioactive material. Did Japanese nuclear engineering experts seriously study the experience of the Chernobyl accident? Many nuclear experts in Japan may have assumed that a severe accident leading to nuclear fuel meltdown would not occur. However, in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP), where six boiling water reactors were operating, three reactors and four reactor buildings collapsed. Moreover, the Tokyo metropolitan area, which is more than 200 km from the FDNPP site, was exposed to a significant radioactive contamination. This event was a severe incident. This book aims to help readers understand the actual situation of
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