Research on Nuclear Sewage Diffusion of Fukushima in Japan

DOI

10.2991/emim-15.2015.177How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Nuclear sewage; Ocean circulation; Impact analysis; Fukushima in Japan; Transport and diffusion.

Abstract

March 11, 2011, the Richter 9.0 earthquake (defined by Japan Meteorological Agency) occurred in the east of Japan, the epicentre was located at 38.1° N, 142.6° E. tsunami triggered by the Earthquake is claimed up to 23 meters. The combination effect of earthquake and tsunami lead to the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. Some water with nuclear sewage is dumped into the sea near Fukushima during the accident. This paper studies the propagation path of nuclear pollutants through ocean circulation. Climate state circulation data, assimilation re-analysis products, surface drifting buoys trajectories, three-dimensional numerical model prediction products are used in this research. The results show that nuclear pollutants have little effect on China marine environment in short time, but may cause influence in long-term.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yong Xu
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TI  - Research on Nuclear Sewage Diffusion of Fukushima in Japan
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Education, Management, Information and Medicine
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 909
EP  - 913
SN  - 2352-5428
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