A research group led by Professor Tomoko Nakanishi of the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences has affected the surrounding agricultural and livestock products in the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station following the Great East Japan Earthquake. I summarized it in a book.The title is "Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident".Published by the international publisher Springer.
At the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo, 40 to 50 faculty members started a dynamic survey of radioactive substances released immediately after the 2011 accident and are still active, but soil, animals, plants, and forests. Experts in a wide range of fields gathered a huge amount of data and summarized how the pollution level of agricultural and livestock products changed over time.
It also reveals the routes by which radioactive materials enter crops and the movement of radiation between different environments such as soil, trees and water.In addition, radiation inspection of agricultural products, decontamination activities at agricultural and livestock production sites, pollution status of wild animals, birds, trees, mushrooms and lumber, changes in the distribution of radioactive contamination in forests and paddy fields, damage to forestry and fisheries , Changes in consumer sentiment are also reported.The final chapter introduces the state-of-the-art "real-time radioisotope imaging system" that visualizes the movement of cesium in soil and plants.
Professor Tomoko Nakanishi announced a comment saying, "We have systematically shown the movement of radioactive materials in the field as data. I would like researchers who are trying to understand the impact on agriculture to pick it up."
