Radiocesium concentrations in wild boars captured within 20 km of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 9272
• Main Authors: Cui, Limeng, Orita, Makiko, Taira, Yasuyuki, Takamura, Noboru
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 09.06.2020; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 704/172; 704/844; Animals; Cesium radioisotopes; Cesium Radioisotopes - analysis; Dietary Exposure - analysis; Environmental Monitoring; Female; Food Contamination, Radioactive - analysis; Food sources; Fukushima Nuclear Accident; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Ingestion; Japan; Male; Meat; multidisciplinary; Muscle, Skeletal - chemistry; Nuclear accidents & safety; Nuclear power plants; Radioactivity; Risk Assessment; Risk factors; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sus scrofa; Japan

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident in 2011 released large amounts of artificial radioactive substances into the environment. In this study, we measured the concentration of radiocesium ( 134 Cs +  137 Cs) in 213 muscle samples from wild boars ( Sus scrofa ) captured in Tomiok...