Pollution of radiocesium and radiosilver in wharf roach (Ligia sp.) by the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

Xuchun Qiu; Suzanne Lydia Undap; Masato Honda; Toshio Sekiguchi; Nobuo Suzuki; Yohei Shimasaki; Hironori Ando; Waka Sato-Okoshi; Toshihiro Wada; Tomoki Sunobe; Satoshi Takeda; Hiroyuki Munehara; Hisashi Yokoyama; Noriyuki Momoshima; Yuji Oshima

doi:10.1007/s10967-016-4879-1

Pollution of radiocesium and radiosilver in wharf roach (Ligia sp.) by the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

Xuchun Qiu, Suzanne Lydia Undap, Masato Honda, Toshio Sekiguchi, Nobuo Suzuki, Yohei Shimasaki, Hironori Ando, Waka Sato-Okoshi, Toshihiro Wada, Tomoki Sunobe, Satoshi Takeda, Hiroyuki Munehara, Hisashi Yokoyama, Noriyuki Momoshima, Yuji Oshima

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Abstract

Radionuclide concentrations in wharf roaches inhabiting coastal areas of Honshu, Japan, were investigated in October 2011 and June 2012. Relative high concentrations of ^110mAg (2.1–127 Bq kg-wet⁻¹), ¹³⁴Cs (2.6–61 Bq kg-wet⁻¹), and ¹³⁷Cs (3.5–92 Bq kg-wet⁻¹) were detected in specimens from the eastern Honshu areas. Significantly lower ¹³⁷Cs concentrations (0.7–1.6 Bq kg-wet⁻¹) were detected in specimens from western and northern Honshu. The decay-corrected ¹³⁷Cs concentration was significantly inversely correlated with the distance from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant. Thus, wharf roach may serve as a good bioindicator for monitoring radioactive contamination of its habitats.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	121-126
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Volume	311
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-016-4879-1
Publication status	Published - 2017 Jan 1

Keywords

Ag
Cs
Cs
Bioindicator
Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident
Ligia sp

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Qiu, X., Undap, S. L., Honda, M., Sekiguchi, T., Suzuki, N., Shimasaki, Y., Ando, H., Sato-Okoshi, W., Wada, T., Sunobe, T., Takeda, S., Munehara, H., Yokoyama, H., Momoshima, N., & Oshima, Y. (2017). Pollution of radiocesium and radiosilver in wharf roach (Ligia sp.) by the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 311(1), 121-126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-016-4879-1

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Pollution of radiocesium and radiosilver in wharf roach (Ligia sp.) by the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

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