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SUBMITTER: Kumamoto Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6267151 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kumamoto Yuichiro Y Aoyama Michio M Hamajima Yasunori Y Oka Eitarou E Murata Akihiko A
Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry 20180821 3
In 2015-2017, we measured activity concentration of radiocesium in the western subtropical gyre of the North Pacific Ocean and revealed the time evolution of radiocesium derived from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP1) accident between 2011 and 2017. The FNPP1-derived radiocesium deposited on the area south of the Kuroshio/Kuroshio Extension Currents in March 2011 was transported southward and westward through subsurface layers due to subduction of the subtropical mode water. In 2 ...[more]