In the aftermath of the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, monitoring of airborne radionuclides took place throughout Japan in order to track the severity of the environmental releases. In analyzing results in both the near and far field around the damaged reactors, key insights about the behaviour of radioiodine in the environment have been gained, and in particular, with respect to the persistence of its volatile forms over iodine-containing aerosols, and what this means about the nature of the accident itself.
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