title: Development of a software platform for providing environmental monitoring data for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.
abstract: In nuclear emergencies, it is especially important to carry out a wide range of environmental monitoring and provide the data immediately so as to understand the current distribution of radionuclides and investigate countermeasures. Therefore, it is indispensable for a nuclear emergency response to establish a system that supports rapid provision of these data. The authors have been developing the software platform by integrating technologies of environmental monitoring, information processing and network communication, based on the experience of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident. It was discovered that the platform is effective in reducing the time needed to publish the monitoring data. Reducing the cost and workload for publishing the monitoring data is also important because monitoring should be continued over a few decades in the case of the Fukushima accident. The authors' platform is expected to help to mitigate the problem, too.
authors.affiliation: Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-1195, Japan seki.akiyuki@jaea.go.jp.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Seki
authors.affiliation: Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-1195, Japan.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.affiliation: Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-1195, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nago
authors.affiliation: Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-1195, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.affiliation: Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-1195, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tomishima
authors.affiliation: Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-1195, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.affiliation: Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-1195, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takemiya
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D062406:Fukushima Nuclear Accident; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000379:methods; D011847:Radioactive Fallout / Q000032:analysis*; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D011847:Radioactive Fallout