title: Radiochemical approach to the JCO criticality accident in Tokai-mura, 1999--an overview of the radiochemistry group.
abstract: A few days after the JCO criticality accident in Tokai-mura, a collaborating scientific investigation group was organized to evaluate the environmental impact of the accident. The group consisted of two groups: an environmental research group (radiochemistry group) and a biological research group. This paper overviews the scientific activity of the former group based on 6 sampling campaigns conducted at the JCO campus, Tokai-mura and Naka-machi. Some of the topical results and our remaining tasks concerning the JCO accident are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Low Level Radioactivity Laboratory, Kanazawa University, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa, Japan. komurak@po.incl.ne.jp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Komura
mesh_terms: D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D011834:Radiation Monitoring; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D011854:Radiochemistry