Ⅰ-4. Details of research outcomes presented at the NIES Public Symposium

The details of discrete research work being conducted at NIES were presented in the document “Large Scale Disasters and Environmental Restoration – the frontline of environmental research in the face of disasters” at the NIES Public Symposium in June 2012.

The results can be viewed below

• Program: Oral presentations making use of slides with the 5 below titles
  1. Waste and radiation issues to date and to come – a focus on initiatives at NIES
  2. Efforts to deal with issues relating to the incineration of disaster waste and waste contaminated by radioactive substances
  3. Following the movement of radioactive substances in the environment – development and application of a multimedia model
  4. Long-term environmental monitoring in the disaster zone of Miyagi Prefecture
  5 Towards a city with the capacity to adapt to changing circumstances in an eco-friendly way: the question of effective resource usage
• Poster Session: 11 poster presentations from a total of 16
  #1 Initiatives for Recovery and Restoration from the Great East Japan Earthquake
  #2 Ease of elution of radioactive cesium to water contained in household waste, incineration ash and the soil, etc.
  #3 Initiatives towards achieving a grasp of the chemical properties of Tsunami debris: finding a method for chemical analysis and contamination status classification
  #4 Towards an early designation of Tsunami debris contaminated with chemical substances – application and issues for a simulation of flooding by Tsunami
  #5 Study to investigate pollution by chemical substances in the Tsunami disaster zone by bioassay – chemical analysis and application of xenobiotic sensor
  #6 Radioactive substances in seawater and bivalves on the eastern seaboard of Japan after the disaster – as revealed by the NIES Environmental Specimens Time Capsule Building
  #7 Pollution by environmental radioactive substances in basins as seen from wetland ecosystems
  #8 “Silent Spring” 50 years on – Rachel Louise Carson’s environmentalism and contamination by radiation
  #9 Japan Environmental and Children’s Study (JECS), progress report following the Great East Japan Earthquake
  #10 Future prospects for electrical power supply in Japan – a quantitative look at short-medium-long term scenarios
  #11 Towards power conserving research environments – NIES trial for the realization of low carbon society
  

In addition, at the NIES Public Symposium in June 2011, there were “Emergency Reports” in the form of four presentations indicated below as “Initiatives for Recovery and Restoration in the Aftermath of the Disaster”

• Emergency Reports: Initiatives for Recovery and Restoration in the Aftermath of the Disaster
  1. Report One: Initiatives of the National Institute for Environmental Studies
  2. Report Two: Current and forthcoming circumstances of disaster waste disposal
  3. Report Three: Household waste water disposal during times of disaster and forthcoming issues
  4. Report Four: Towards restoration planning making use of regional eco capacities

• Poster One: Information relating to the Great East Japan Earthquake
  (1) Initiatives for Recovery and Restoration from the Great East Japan Earthquake
  (2) Comprehensive atmospheric radioactivity measurements for Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture following the Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant accident
  (3) Initiatives for Recovery and Restoration from the Great East Japan Earthquake (NIES homepage)