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11 - Emergency Actions and Messages Related to the Fukushima Accident

from Part III - Lessons and Future Issues from the Fukushima Accident

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2019

Edited by
Teruyuki Nakajima ,
Toshimasa Ohara ,
Mitsuo Uematsu  and
Yuichi Onda
Teruyuki Nakajima
Affiliation:
University of Tokyo
Toshimasa Ohara
Affiliation:
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
Mitsuo Uematsu
Affiliation:
University of Tokyo
Yuichi Onda
Affiliation:
University of Tsukuba, Japan
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Summary

Fukushima University is the only national university in Fukushima Prefecture that is located near the earthquake and nuclear accident. The university provided much of the correspondence about the earthquake and the nuclear accident. Moreover, the highest dose rate from the radioactive material released into the environment by the nuclear accident was measured at the public facilities of the university. Putting aside the reality of crisis management, here we describe several thoughts for a safer society.

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Environmental Contamination from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Dispersion, Monitoring, Mitigation and Lessons Learned
 , pp. 284 - 327
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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