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Overview of active cesium contamination of freshwater fish in Fukushima and Eastern Japan

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, April 2013
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Title
Overview of active cesium contamination of freshwater fish in Fukushima and Eastern Japan
Published in
Scientific Reports, April 2013
DOI 10.1038/srep01742
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Authors

Toshiaki Mizuno, Hideya Kubo

Abstract

This paper focuses on an overview of radioactive cesium 137 (quasi-Cs137 included Cs134) contamination of freshwater fish in Fukushima and eastern Japan based on the data published by the Fisheries Agency of the Japanese Government in 2011. In the area north and west of the Fukushima Nuclear plant, freshwater fish have been highly contaminated. For example, the mean of active cesium (quasi-Cs137) contamination of Ayu (Plecoglossus altivelis) is 2,657 Bq/kg at Mano River, 20-40 km north-west from the plant. Bioaccumulation is observed in the Agano river basin in Aizu sub-region, 70-150 km west from the plant. The active cesium (quasi-Cs137) contamination of carnivorous Salmondae is around 2 times higher than herbivorous Ayu. The extent of active cesium (quasi-Cs137) contamination of Ayu is observed in the entire eastern Japan. The some level of the contamination is recognized even in Shizuoka prefecture, 400 km south-west from the plant.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Korea, Republic of 1 1%
Unknown 82 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 25 29%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 19%
Student > Bachelor 8 9%
Other 6 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 6%
Other 13 15%
Unknown 12 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 20%
Environmental Science 17 20%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 6 7%
Chemistry 5 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 5%
Other 17 20%
Unknown 19 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5958. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 April 2023.
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#574
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#9
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#2
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#1
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