Cesium-137 stored on and discharged from banks of an agricultural canal in Iitate, Fukushima.

J Environ Radioact

Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan.

Published: January 2022

This study aimed to investigate the dynamics of Cs around banks along an agricultural canal for paddy fields in Iitate, Fukushima, Japan. Five plots (2.4-12.6 m) on the banks were monitored intermittently during six time periods from May 2018 to November 2019. We directly collected runoff water samples discharged from the banks followed by partitioning it into particulate and dissolved fractions and determining Cs in them. To investigate the source of Cs in the runoff water, we sequentially extracted Cs in various chemical forms from litter samples collected on the banks. The results showed that the discharge rates of the dissolved Cs per unit area from the plots were lower than those observed at the downstream of the agricultural canal, whereas more than 50% of the Cs discharged from the plots was in the dissolved fraction. Moreover, the results indicate that Cs stored in the standing plants and the litter was the primary source of the dissolved Cs discharged into the agricultural canal. The concentrations of the water-soluble Cs in the litter per plot area may have been retained by the sufficiently higher concentrations of Cs in litter in other chemical forms and those in the standing plants, which are the source of the litter.

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