Research and management challenges following soil and landscape decontamination at the onset of the reopening of the Difficult-To-Return Zone, Fukushima (Japan)
Abstract:Abstract. Twelve years after the nuclear accident that occurred at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant in March 2011, radiocesium contamination (with a large dominance of 137Cs, with a 30-years half-life) remains a major concern in various municipalities of Northeastern Japan. The Japanese authorities completed an unprecedented decontamination programme in residential and cultivated areas affected by the main radioactive plume (8953 km²). They implemented a complex remediation programme scheme relying o… Show more
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