An overview of current knowledge concerning the health and environmental consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident

Aliyu, Abubakar Sadiq; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Mousseau, Timothy A.; Wu, Jun Wen; Ramli, Ahmad Termizi

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2015.09.020

Cited by 61 publications

(36 citation statements)

References 141 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The health and ecological impacts of chronic exposure to low dose/dose rate from natural and anthropogenic radionuclides have been a subject of interest to scientists [e.g. [8][9][10][11][12][13].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health and ecological hazards due to natural radioactivity in soil from mining areas of Nasarawa State, Nigeria

Aliyu

Ibrahim

Akpa

et al. 2015

Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Nasarawa State is located in north central Nigeria and it is known as Nigeria's home of solid minerals. It is endowed with barite, copper, zinc, tantalite and granite. Continuous releases of mining waste and tailings into the biosphere may result in a build-up of radionuclides in air, water and soil. This work therefore aims to measure the activity concentration levels of primordial radionuclides in the soil/sediment samples collected from selected mines of the mining areas of Nasarawa State. The paper also assesses the radiological and radio ecological impacts of mining activities on the residents of mining areas and their environment. The activity concentrations of primordial radionuclides ((226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K) in the surface soils/sediment samples were determined using sodium iodide-thallium gamma spectroscopy. Seven major mines were considered with 21 samples taken from each of the mines for radiochemistry analysis. The human health hazard assessment was conducted using regulatory methodologies set by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, while the radio ecological impact assessment was conducted using the ERICA tool v. 1.2. The result shows that the activity concentrations of (40)K in the water ways of the Akiri copper and the Azara barite mines are 60 and 67% higher than the world average value for (40)K, respectively. In all mines, the annual effective dose rates (mSv y(-1)) were less than unity, and a maximum annual gonadal dose of 0.58 mSv y(-1) is received at the Akiri copper mine, which is almost twice the world average value for gonadal dose. The external hazard indices for all the mines were less than unity. Our results also show that mollusc-gastropod, insect larvae, mollusc-bivalve and zooplankton are the freshwater biotas with the highest dose rates ranging from 5 to 7 µGy h(-1). These higher dose rates could be associated with zinc and copper mining at Abuni and Akiri, respectively. The most exposed terrestrial reference organisms are lichen and bryophytes. In all cases, the radio ecological risks are not likely to be discernible. This paper presents a pioneer data for ecological risk from ionizing contaminants due to mining activity in Nasarawa State, Nigeria. Its methodology could be adopted for future work on radioecology of mining.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health and ecological hazards due to natural radioactivity in soil from mining areas of Nasarawa State, Nigeria

Aliyu

Ibrahim

Akpa

et al. 2015

Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…According to various observations, estimations, and models, the total amount of radioactive isotopes released to the air were 105.9 ÷ 160 PBq 15 (petabecquerel, i.e., 10 15 Bq) for 131 I (the superscript on the left denotes the mass number of the isotope), around 35.8 PBq for 132 I, 11.6 ÷ 36.7 PBq for 137 Cs, and around 15.3 Ebq (exabecquerel, i.e., 10 18 Bq) for 133 Xe. Similarly, it is estimated that 1 ÷ 42 PBq of 137 Cs and 0.1 ÷ 22 PBq of 90 Sr were released to the Pacific Ocean (Aliyu et al 2015).…”

Section: Case Study: Fukushima Disastermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result, the impact of the disaster was global-the radioactive isotopes related to the Fukushima accident were detected in locations all over the world (Aliyu et al 2015;Bolsunovsky and Dementyev 2011;Manolopoulou et al 2011). It is too early to assess the long-term impact of the Fukushima accident on the environment.…”

Section: Case Study: Fukushima Disastermentioning

confidence: 99%

The externalities of energy production in the context of development of clean energy generation

Bielecki

Ernst

Skrodzka

et al. 2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this paper, we present a comparative review of the externalities of electricity production. First of all, the environmental impact is considered. A discussion of the influence of various electricity production processes on human health follows. The studies are conducted in the context of historical development. Current trends, as well as a historical background that resulted in the changes that can be observed today, are presented. The considerations are supported by a few case studies. Analysis of perspectives for the development of electricity generation methods, in particular the indication of clean energy sources and the perspectives of their exploitation, is the main aim of this paper.

show abstract

“…Real data sets, such as the Chernobyl and the Fukushima accidents, do not provide ground truth of the source term (Aliyu et al, 2015), and most of the measurements is nuclide-specific (Evangeliou et al, 2016). However, the Chernobyl source term is also composed from many species, since the nuclides are attached to different particles sizes (Evangeliou et al, 2017).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Source term estimation of multi‐specie atmospheric release of radiation from gamma dose rates

Tichý

Šmı́dl

Hofman

et al. 2018

Quart J Royal Meteoro Soc

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Determination of a source term of an accidental release of radioactive material into the atmosphere is very important for evaluating emergency situations and their consequences. However, knowledge of the source term and its composition is typically vague and uncertain. One possible way to obtain the source term is inverse modeling in which an atmospheric transport model is combined with field measurements. The most accessible measurements are those from gamma dose rate (GDR) detectors. However, GDR measurements represent a sum of contribution from all nuclides from both plume and deposition which makes the problem particularly difficult. The same difficulty arises when the measurements can not distinguish contribution from another species in the release, such as nuclides attached to different particle sizes. We propose a Bayesian method for recovery of the source term from GDR measurements where a priori knowledge on ratios of different species is given in the form of bounds. This knowledge is incorporated into the model of covariance matrix of the source term. The Bayesian methodology allows to handle uncertain knowledge on the nuclide ratios as well as unknown temporal correlations of the source term. We evaluate and compare the proposed method with other state‐of‐the‐art methods on a twin experiment of a non‐stationary release of 16 nuclides from the Czech nuclear power plant Temelin being registered by the Austrian GDR monitoring network. Real‐world validation of the approach is performed on the latest measurements of concentration and deposition of caesium‐137 from the Chernobyl accident, where we estimate composition of the source term from different particle sizes (species). The estimated source term is in very good agreement with previously reported results and the calculated species ratios are supported by the available observations.

show abstract

An overview of current knowledge concerning the health and environmental consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident

Cited by 61 publications

References 141 publications

Health and ecological hazards due to natural radioactivity in soil from mining areas of Nasarawa State, Nigeria

Health and ecological hazards due to natural radioactivity in soil from mining areas of Nasarawa State, Nigeria

The externalities of energy production in the context of development of clean energy generation

Source term estimation of multi‐specie atmospheric release of radiation from gamma dose rates

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About