Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Provenance of uranium particulate contained within Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 ejecta material

  • Peter G. Martin,
  • Marion Louvel,
  • Silvia Cipiccia,
  • Christopher P. Jones,
  • Darren J. Batey,
  • Keith R. Hallam,
  • Ian A. X. Yang,
  • Yukihiko Satou,
  • Christoph Rau,
  • J. Fred W. Mosselmans,
  • David A. Richards,
  • Thomas B. Scott

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10937-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The larger particulates from reactor Unit 1 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant have received sparse attention compared to the Unit 2 particulate. Here the authors perform the higher-resolution and 3-dimentional analysis of several high-density micron-scale fragments, from within a larger Unit 1-derived representative ejecta particle.