Environmental risk management for radiological accidents: Integrating risk assessment and decision analysis for remediation at different spatial scales
✍ Scribed by Boris Yatsalo; Terrence Sullivan; Vladimir Didenko; Igor Linkov
- Publisher
- Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 189 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1551-3777
- DOI
- 10.1002/ieam.229
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The consequences of the Tohuku earthquake and subsequent tsunami in March 2011 caused a loss of power at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Japan, and led to the release of radioactive materials into the environment. Although the full extent of the contamination is not currently known, the highly complex nature of the environmental contamination (radionuclides in water, soil, and agricultural produce) typical of nuclear accidents requires a detailed geospatial analysis of information with the ability to extrapolate across different scales with applications to risk assessment models and decision making support. This article briefly summarizes the approach used to inform risk‐based land management and remediation decision making after the Chernobyl, Soviet Ukraine, accident in 1986. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2011;7:393–395. © 2011 SETAC