著者

小暮 敏博 向井 広樹 甕 聡子

出版者

日本地球化学会

雑誌

地球化学 (ISSN:03864073)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.49, no.4, pp.195-201, 2015-09-25 (Released:2015-12-25)

参考文献数

13

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Mineral species that really retain radioactive cesium in Fukushima soil have been investigated by analyzing actual contaminated soil samples in Fukushima using IP autoradiography, electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. Weathered biotite originated from granitic body in Fukushima was frequently found as radioactive fine particles. The weathered biotite is mineralogically a biotite-vermiculite mixed-layer mineral. Besides, smectite-like clay mineral was identified in biotite-free particles using X-ray diffraction. A new cesium-sorption experiment was conducted, in which various clay minerals were immersed together in dilute 137Cs radioisotope solutions and the amount of 137Cs adsorbed in each mineral was measured by IP autoradiography to reproduce the sorption at actual concentration level in the radioactive particles. It was found that 137Cs was sorbed predominantly by the weathered biotite collected in Fuku shima, confirming the results from the investigation of the actual contaminated soil mentioned above.