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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-479-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-479-2023
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Review article
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06 Sep 2023
Review article |
| 06 Sep 2023
| 06 Sep 2023
Research and management challenges following soil and landscape decontamination at the onset of the reopening of the Difficult-to-Return Zone, Fukushima (Japan)
Olivier Evrard
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
(LSCE/IPSL), Université Paris-Saclay, UMR 8212 (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ),
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Thomas Chalaux-Clergue
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
(LSCE/IPSL), Université Paris-Saclay, UMR 8212 (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ),
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Pierre-Alexis Chaboche
International Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science (Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan (Standard), Japan
Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, Fukushima University, Kanayagawa, Japan
Yoshifumi Wakiyama
Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, Fukushima University, Kanayagawa, Japan
Yves Thiry
French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency (Andra) –
Research and Development Division, Bure, France
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Short summary
Twelve years after the nuclear accident that occurred in Fukushima in March 2011, radioactive contamination remains a major concern in north-eastern Japan. The Japanese authorities completed an unprecedented decontamination programme. The central objective was to not expose local inhabitants to excessive radioactive doses. At the onset of the full reopening of the Difficult-to-Return Zone in 2023, the current review provides an update of a previous synthesis published in 2019.
Twelve years after the nuclear accident that occurred in Fukushima in March 2011, radioactive...
