Open AccessA Study on Community-Based Reconstruction from Nuclear Power Plant Disaster - A Case Study of Minamisoma Ota Area in Fukushima -
Author(s) -
Tomoyuki Furutani,
K. Uehara,
Jun Murai
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of disaster research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1883-8030
pISSN - 1881-2473
DOI - 10.20965/jdr.2012.p0432
Subject(s) - nuclear power plant , nuclear disaster , fukushima nuclear accident , environmental science , human decontamination , radiation monitoring , remote sensing , environmental resource management , geography , engineering , waste management , nuclear medicine , medicine , physics , nuclear physics
In this research, the authors developed a car-borne radiation measurement method for the farmland and roads in the Minamisoma Ota area of Fukushima that was devasteted by the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred in northeast Japan on March 11, 2011, and a community-led radiation measurement framework was established and implemented. As a result, radiation measurements and visualization for farmlands, paddies, and forests, which had been conventionally unachievable, was made possible. Furthermore, effective verification of the effect of decontamination also became possible by feeding back radiation measurement results before and after decontamination to residents.