Comparison of the accident process, radioactivity release and ground contamination between Chernobyl and Fukushima-1
| Autor: | Gohei Hayashi, Tetsuji Imanaka, Satoru Endo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Fukushima Nuclear Accident
Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Special Issue - Fukushima Cumulative Exposure radiation exposure Chernobyl Nuclear Accident 137Cesium 131Iodine Radiation Monitoring ground contamination Soil Pollutants Radioactive Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radionuclide Radiation business.industry Cesium Radioisotopes [131] Iodine Contamination Deposition (aerosol physics) Gamma Rays [137] Cesium Environmental chemistry Fukushima accident Radiation monitoring Environmental science Chernobyl accident Nuclear medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Radiation Research |
| ISSN: | 0449-3060 |
| Popis: | In this report, we have reviewed the basic features of the accident processes and radioactivity releases that occurred in the Chernobyl accident (1986) and in the Fukushima-1 accident (2011). The Chernobyl accident was a power-surge accident that was caused by a failure of control of a fission chain reaction, which instantaneously destroyed the reactor and building, whereas the Fukushima-1 accident was a loss-of-coolant accident in which the reactor cores of three units were melted by decay heat after losing the electricity supply. Although the quantity of radioactive noble gases released from Fukushima-1 exceeded the amount released from Chernobyl, the size of land area severely contaminated by [137] Cesium ( [137] Cs) was 10 times smaller around Fukushima-1 compared with around Chernobyl. The differences in the accident process are reflected in the composition of the discharged radioactivity as well as in the composition of the ground contamination. Volatile radionuclides (such as [132] Te- [132] I, [131] I, [134] Cs and [137] Cs) contributed to the gamma-ray exposure from the ground contamination around Fukishima-1, whereas a greater variety of radionuclides contributed significantly around Chernobyl. When radioactivity deposition occurred, the radiation exposure rate near Chernobyl is estimated to have been 770 μGy h [−1] per initial [137] Cs deposition of 1000 kBq m [−2], whereas it was 100 μGy h [−1] around Fukushima-1. Estimates of the cumulative exposure for 30 years are 970 and 570 mGy per initial deposition of 1000 kBq m [−2] for Chernobyl and Fukusima-1, respectively. Of these exposures, 49 and 98% were contributed by radiocesiums ( [134] Cs + [137] Cs) around Chernobyl and Fukushima-1, respectively. |
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