Agricultural land management options following large-scale environmental contamination
✍ Scribed by Hildegarde Vandenhove; Catrinel Turcanu
- Publisher
- Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 85 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1551-3777
- DOI
- 10.1002/ieam.234
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The recent events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Japan, have raised questions about the accumulation of radionuclides in soils, the transfer in the food chain, and the possibility for restricted land use in the foreseeable future. This article summarizes what is generally understood about the application of agricultural countermeasures as a land management option to reduce the transfer of radionuclides in the food chain and to facilitate the return of potentially affected soils to agricultural practices in the vicinity of the Fukushima plant. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2011;7:385–387. © 2011 SETAC