TY - BOOK ID - 138227561 TI - Assessment of Environmental Radioactivity and Radiation for Human Health Risk AU - Tokonami, Shinji AU - Kashiwakura, Ikuo PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - air dose rate KW - difficult-to-return zone KW - evacuation order-lifted areas KW - effective dose rate KW - external exposure risk KW - Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident KW - living space KW - radiocesium KW - surface soil KW - Tomioka town KW - tritium monitoring KW - fusion test facility KW - deuterium plasma experiment KW - monthly precipitation KW - chemical composition KW - Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant KW - strontium-90 KW - cesium-137 KW - seawater monitoring KW - contaminated water KW - dose assessment KW - Japan KW - bottled water KW - guidance level KW - WHO KW - natural radionuclides KW - artificial radionuclides KW - effective dose KW - ingestion KW - passive radon monitor KW - development KW - sensitivity KW - detection limit KW - air-exchange rate KW - total diet study KW - radioactive cesium KW - potassium-40 KW - dietary intake KW - Fukushima accident KW - 222Rn progeny KW - 220Rn progeny KW - CR-39 KW - equilibrium equivalent concentration KW - deposition velocity KW - thoron KW - thoron progeny KW - indoor environment KW - measurement technique KW - radioactivity KW - residential exposure KW - dose KW - gamma radiation KW - health risk KW - radon mapping KW - 226Ra KW - 228Ra KW - 238U KW - well water KW - radiological hazards KW - REE and uranium mines KW - northern Vietnam KW - radon KW - hot spring KW - public health KW - Namie Town KW - cesium-134 KW - external exposure dose evaluation KW - radon concentration KW - groundwater KW - residence time KW - limestone aquifer KW - Okinawa Island KW - indoor KW - environment KW - nationwide survey KW - SSNTD KW - radon potential map KW - geography information systems KW - geology KW - risk KW - exhalation rate KW - long-term measurement KW - seasonal variation KW - Fukushima KW - free-roaming cat KW - reproductive organ KW - internal contamination UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138227561 AB - Ten years have passed since the nuclear accident occurred in Fukushima, Japan, following the Great East Japan earthquake. Thereafter, many people around the world have been concerned about the risks posed by radiation. They still believe that even a small amount of radiation exposure will affect human health. In reality, however, there are many natural radionuclides in the environment, which emit a variety of types of radiation. Although it is well known that there is a positively linear relationship between acute radiation exposure and cancer risk in atomic bomb survivors, the risk of chronic radiation exposure due to natural radionuclides cannot be well explained to people who have lived in high-background radiation areas for many generations. Therefore, more studies in this research field are required to obtain new scientific findings. In order to promote further scientific activities, it will be the best for us to understand the current status of this field by summarizing what we have apprehended so far. This Special Issue will highlight measurement data, methodologies, radiation biology, and risk assessment related to radiation. ER -