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Gages. --- Radiation-Safety measures. --- Radioactive substances--Safety measures.

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This open access book presents the findings from on-site research into radioactive cesium contamination in various agricultural systems affected by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011. This third volume in the series reports on studies undertaken at contaminated sites such as farmland, forests, and marine and freshwater environments, with a particular focus on livestock, wild plants and mushrooms, crops, and marine products in those environments. It also provides additional data collected in the subsequent years to show how the radioactivity levels in agricultural products and their growing environments have changed with time and the route by which radioactive materials entered agricultural products as well as their movement between different components (e.g., soil, water, and trees) within an environmental system (e.g., forests). The book covers various topics, including radioactivity testing of food products; decontamination trials for rice and livestock production; the state of contamination in, trees, mushrooms, and timber; the dynamics of radioactivity distribution in paddy fields and upland forests; damage incurred by the forestry and fishery industries; and the change in consumers’ attitudes. Chapter 19 introduces a real-time radioisotope imaging system, a pioneering technique to visualize the movement of cesium in soil and in plants. This is the only book to provide systematic data on the actual change of radioactivity, and as such is of great value to all researchers who wish to understand the effect of radioactive fallout on agriculture. In addition, it helps the general public to better understand the issues of radio-contamination in the environment. The project is ongoing; the research groups from the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences of The University of Tokyo continue their work in the field to further evaluate the long-term effects of the Fukushima accident.

Environmental protection. --- Pollution. --- Agriculture. --- Forests and forestry. --- Animal physiology. --- Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection. --- Pollution, general. --- Forestry. --- Animal Physiology. --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental quality --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental policy --- Animal physiology --- Animals --- Biology --- Anatomy --- Forest land --- Forest lands --- Forest planting --- Forest production --- Forest sciences --- Forestation --- Forested lands --- Forestland --- Forestlands --- Forestry --- Forestry industry --- Forestry sciences --- Land, Forest --- Lands, Forest --- Silviculture --- Sylviculture --- Woodlands --- Woods (Forests) --- Agriculture --- Natural resources --- Afforestation --- Arboriculture --- Logging --- Timber --- Tree crops --- Trees --- Environmental aspects --- Physiology --- Radiation protection. --- Radiation—Safety measures. --- Environmental monitoring. --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Radiation monitoring --- Radiation protection --- Measurement --- Monitoring --- Environment --- Radiation—Safety measures --- Environmental monitoring --- Radiation --- Safety measures.

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This book presents the reader with a story-based narrative of discovery and development of radiation-induced graft polymerization. The report presented here accomplishes this by relating the inspiring account of research and development based on long-term collaboration among a professor, an engineer, and an entrepreneur. Their goal, ultimately successful, was to come up with a method for grafting functional polymer chains onto existing trunk polymers. The desired outcome was to produce feasible forms for practical use as adsorbents such as porous hollow-fiber membranes, porous sheets, nonwoven fabrics, and fibers. Adsorbents that specifically and efficiently bind to target ions and molecules are essential for capturing uranium species in seawater and antibody drugs in biological fluids and for removing metal ions from ultrapure water and radioactive cesium ions from contaminated water. This unique volume, with its clearly written text and many illustrative figures and diagrams, demonstrates the advantages of the high-adsorption capacity and rate and the easy handling of new polymeric adsorbents over conventional adsorbents. The dynamic behavior of graft chains as described here is certain to appeal especially to chemists, physicists, and material scientists as well as to other readers with an interest in this valuable subject. .

Chemistry. --- Analytical chemistry. --- Polymers. --- Radiation protection. --- Radiation --- Environmental chemistry. --- Polymer Sciences. --- Environmental Chemistry. --- Analytical Chemistry. --- Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection. --- Safety measures. --- Analytical biochemistry. --- Environmental protection. --- Chemistry, Environmental --- Chemistry --- Ecology --- Polymere --- Polymeride --- Polymers and polymerization --- Macromolecules --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Analytic biochemistry --- Biochemistry --- Chemistry, Analytic --- Bioanalytic chemistry --- Bioanalytical chemistry --- Analytical chemistry --- Polymers  . --- Radiation—Safety measures. --- Radiation monitoring --- Radiation protection --- Analysis, Chemical --- Analytic chemistry --- Chemical analysis

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The long-term governance of radioactive waste continues to be a major complex and contentious socio-technical issue worldwide. Traditionally, it has been considered as mainly a challenge to scientists and engineers to develop technical "solutions" to specific problems. But increasingly these narrow solutions have been enlarged by wider societal considerations such as ethics, public involvement, control and retrievability – needs that have in the meanwhile been recognised by the nuclear community, at least in a general way. In this book, we analyse motives for a broad discourse as well as suggest prerequisites to launch it. The author attempts to give a novel, empirically based and technically sound treatment of fundamental issues in long-term management and governance. Written to be accessible to a wide selection of the interested public, the study proposes a combination of technical design issues, analysis methods and institutional backup in a dynamic procedure, and with involvement at all levels of political, commercial and social life.

Radioactive wastes --- Management. --- Social aspects. --- Nuclear wastes --- Radwastes --- Wastes, Nuclear --- Wastes, Radioactive --- Hazardous wastes --- Nuclear engineering --- Radioactive substances --- Waste disposal. --- Environmental management. --- Economics. --- Environmental toxicology. --- Environmental protection. --- Waste Management/Waste Technology. --- Environmental Management. --- Political Economy/Economic Systems. --- Ecotoxicology. --- Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection. --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Ecotoxicology --- Pollutants --- Pollution --- Environmental health --- Toxicology --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Management --- Monograph --- Waste management. --- Economic policy. --- Radiation protection. --- Radiation—Safety measures. --- Radiation monitoring --- Radiation protection --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy

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This topical issue is based on the presentations given at the 26th National Solar Observatory (NSO) Summer Workshop held at the National Solar Observatory/Sacramento Peak, New Mexico, USA from 30 April to 4 May 2012. This unique forum brought together experts in different areas of solar and space physics to help in developing a full picture of the origin of solar phenomena that affect Earth’s technological systems.  The articles include theory, model, and observation research on the origin of the solar activity and its cycle, as well as a discussion on how to incorporate the research into space-weather forecasting tools.  This volume is aimed at graduate students and researchers active in solar physics and space science.  Previously published in Solar Physics, Vol. 289/2, 2014.

Solar activity. --- Space environment. --- Helioseismology. --- Solar dynamics --- Solar seismology --- Astroseismology --- Environment, Space --- Extraterrestrial environment --- Space weather --- Extreme environments --- Solar radiation --- Stellar activity --- Astrophysics. --- Environmental protection. --- Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). --- Atmospheric Sciences. --- Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection. --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Space sciences. --- Atmospheric sciences. --- Radiation protection. --- Radiation—Safety measures. --- Radiation monitoring --- Radiation protection --- Atmospheric sciences --- Earth sciences --- Atmosphere --- Science and space --- Space research --- Cosmology --- Science