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12 - Recommendations for the Fukushima Project from Foreign Scientists

from Part III - Lessons and Future Issues from the Fukushima Accident

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2019

Edited by
Teruyuki Nakajima ,
Toshimasa Ohara ,
Mitsuo Uematsu  and
Yuichi Onda
Teruyuki Nakajima
Affiliation:
University of Tokyo
Toshimasa Ohara
Affiliation:
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
Mitsuo Uematsu
Affiliation:
University of Tokyo
Yuichi Onda
Affiliation:
University of Tsukuba, Japan
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Summary

There has been much reflection on the issue of access to and sharing of data and information among the different agencies involved in emergency response both in the country where an accident happened and among third-party countries. A universal data exchange format has been proposed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as a result (IRIX Steering Committee, 2013). The creation at the start of an emergency of a database containing exhaustive entries for all measurements (e.g. location of measuring devices, measuring device types, measurement errors, producers) would facilitate the work of the different bodies while removing the burden of communication from the affected country. A public database of this kind would also improve transparency in relation to the public. In France, for example, a shared database is currently being created. The same logic could also be applied to meteorological observations, to the parameters defining the state of the facility and even to the outcomes of expert assessments.

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Environmental Contamination from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Dispersion, Monitoring, Mitigation and Lessons Learned
 , pp. 328 - 334
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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