Radioactive Contamination of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area

Hideo Yamazaki retired as a Professor at Kindai University and is now a director of an NPO corporation on environmental conservation. He is also a peer reviewer for several academic journals. After receiving his bachelor's degree in Nuclear Reactor Engineering, he completed his PhD degree at Kindai University with research on the dynamic analysis of heavy metal pollution in the aquatic environment using radiochemical techniques. He was also involved in developing ultra-precision pH measurement methods of geothermal power-plant hot water in Professor Henry Freiser’s laboratory at the University of Arizona.　 He has received the Encouragement Award from the Japan Association for Chemical Innovation, the Academic Award and Best Paper Award from the Japan Society for Environmental Chemistry, and the Best Paper Award from the Society of Environmental Conservation Engineering.

Chapter 1. Outline of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident.- Chapter 2. Advection and diffusion of radioactive materials released in the FDNPP accident into the central area of Japan.- Chapter 3. Spatiotemporal distribution of radionuclides in soil in the Tokyo metropolitan area.- Chapter 4. Characteristics of the distributions of 131I and radioactive cesium in the soil of the Tokyo metropolitan area after the FDNPP accident.- Chapter 5. Role of the wastewater treatment system in the behavior of radioactive cesium precipitated in the urban area of Tokyo.- Chapter 6. The importance of Tokyo Bay as a reservoir for radioactive materials precipitated in the Tokyo metropolitan area.- Chapter 7. The behavior of radioactive cesium precipitated in forests.- Chapter 8. Radioactive contamination of fishes in aquatic ecosystems.- Chapter 9. Topics.