Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant accident: Atmospheric and oceanic impacts over the five years

K Hirose - Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant (FDNPP) accident resulted in huge
environmental and socioeconomic impacts to Japan. To document the actual environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Radionuclide measurements of the international monitoring system

MA Goodwin, AV Davies, R Britton, HS Miley… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The International Monitoring System (IMS) is a unique global network of sensors,
tuned to measure various phenomenology, with the common goal of detecting a nuclear …

Atmospheric dispersion prediction and source estimation of hazardous gas using artificial neural network, particle swarm optimization and expectation maximization

S Qiu, B Chen, R Wang, Z Zhu, Y Wang, X Qiu - Atmospheric environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Hazardous gas leak accident has posed a potential threat to human beings. Predicting
atmospheric dispersion and estimating its source become increasingly important in …

A review of global radioxenon background research and issues

TW Bowyer - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2021 - Springer
Among the most important problems for the world-wide nuclear explosion monitoring is the
interference of naturally occurring and man-made radionuclides. The International …

Paradigms and commonalities in atmospheric source term estimation methods

PE Bieringer, GS Young, LM Rodriguez… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - Elsevier
Modeling the downwind hazard area resulting from the unknown release of an atmospheric
contaminant requires estimation of the source characteristics of a localized source from …

Source term inversion coupling Kernel Principal Component Analysis, Whale Optimization Algorithm, and Backpropagation Neural Networks (KPCA-WOA-BPNN) for …

X Li, J Song, L Yang, H Li, S Fang - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Accurate and rapid source term estimation is critical for consequence assessment and
emergency decision-making in nuclear accidents. Neural network methods provide a …

Radioactivity impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on the atmosphere

W Lin, L Chen, W Yu, H Ma, Z Zeng, J Lin… - Atmospheric Environment, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fukushima Nuclear Accident (FNA) resulted in a large amount of radionuclides
released into the atmosphere and dispersed globally, which has greatly raised public …

The role of mass spectrometry in radioactive contamination assessment after the Fukushima nuclear accident

W Bu, Y Ni, G Steinhauser, W Zheng, J Zheng… - Journal of Analytical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The Fukushima nuclear accident caused the release of large amounts of radionuclides into
the environment. After the accident, radioactive contamination assessment in environmental …

Multi-nuclide source term estimation method for severe nuclear accidents from sequential gamma dose rate based on a recurrent neural network

Y Ling, Q Yue, T Huang, Q Shan, D Hei, X Zhang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
When severe nuclear accidents at nuclear power plants release radioactive material into the
atmosphere, the source term information is typically unknown. Estimating the emission rate …

Projected network performance for multiple isotopes using next-generation xenon monitoring systems

PW Eslinger, JH Ely, JD Lowrey, HS Miley - Journal of environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since about 2000 (Bowyer et al., 1998), radioxenon monitoring systems have been under
development and testing for the verification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty …