Tomoro Warashina, Asako Sato, Hiroshi Hinai, Nurislam Shaikhutdinov, Elena Shagimardanova, Hiroshi Mori, Satoshi Tamaki, Motofumi Saito, Yukihisa Sanada, Yoshito Sasaki, Kozue Shimada, Yuma Dotsuta, Toru Kitagaki, Shigenori Maruyama, Oleg Gusev, Issay Narumi, Ken Kurokawa, Teppei Morita, Toshikazu Ebisuzaki, Akihiko Nishimura, Yoshikazu Koma, Akio Kanai
UNLABELLED: A major incident occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station following the tsunami triggered by the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake in March 2011, whereby seawater entered the torus room in the basement of the reactor building. Here, we identify and analyze the bacterial communities in the torus room water and several environmental samples. Samples of the torus room water (1 × 109 Bq137 Cs/L) were collected by the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings from two sampling points between 30 cm and 1 m from the bottom of the room (TW1) and the bottom layer (TW2)...
March 12, 2024: Applied and Environmental Microbiology