Environmental Monitoring of Village Contaminated by Radionuclides
Environmental Monitoring of Village Contaminated by Radionuclides
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放射性核素污染村的环境监测
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2011
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通讯作者:
Daiki Kobayashi
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作者:
M. Mizoguchi;Tetsu Ito;Daiki Kobayashi
On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake struck the eastern region of Japan, causing widespread devastation. Since then, agricultural engineers throughout Japan have combined their experience and have been working on a variety of restoration projects. One such project involves the restoration of farmland contaminated by radionuclides; however, this is a new type of challenge with many unknowns. For example, do countermeasures for soil contamination exist? How should we evaluate the efficiency of the farmland decontamination efforts? We propose that it is necessary to monitor radiation continuously at points referred to as hotspots in rural areas. However, although people need an economical radiation sensor that gives a relative value, such meters are typically expensive. These high costs prompted a volunteer group to develop a pocket radiation sensor. We have also been developing a field monitoring system (FMS) for quasi-real time data collection from remote agricultural fields in Asia. In October 2011, we added this new radiation sensor to our in situ soil monitoring in Iitate, Fukushima. Here we explain the outline of an FMS with a radiation sensor. We believe that an FMS fitted with a radiation sensor is a useful tool for remediation of the radionuclide contaminated farmland.