Radiocesium contamination of lake sediments and fish following the Fukushima nuclear accident and their partition coefficient

• Main Authors: Takehiko Fukushima, Hiroyuki Arai
• Other Authors: MEXT in Japan
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Freshwater Biological Association 2014
• Subjects: fish; lake characteristics; radiocesium; partition coefficient; sediments; Fish Lake; Fukushima; Icefish
• Online Access: https://www.fba.org.uk/journals/index.php/IW/article/view/689

To evaluate the influences of the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011 on lake sediments and fish and to understand the difference in their contamination levels, data on radiocesium concentrations (137Cs and 134Cs) were analyzed for sediments and 18 fish species (including one freshwater prawn) taken...