Comprehensive whole-body counter surveys of Miharu-town school children for three consecutive years after the Fukushima NPP accident

摘要

Comprehensive whole-body counter surveys covering over 93% of the school children between the ages of 6 and 15 in Miharu town, Fukushima Prefecture, have been conducted for three consecutive years, in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Although the results of a questionnaire indicate that approximately 60% of the children have been regularly eating local or home-grown rice, in 2012 and 2013 no child was found to exceed the ¹³⁷Cs detection limit of 300 Bq/body.