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Impact of Natural Disaster Combined with Nuclear Power Plant Accidents on Local Medical Services: a Case Study of Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Yuko Kodama, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Kaoru Hayashi, Michiko Takano, Mayumi Nagano, Katsuko Onoda, Toshiharu Yoshida, Akemi Takada, Tatsuo Hanai, Shunji Shimada,

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness · 2014 · 87 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

After the disaster, hospitals located within the evacuation zone of a 30-km radius of the nuclear power plant were isolated. Maintenance of the health care system in such an event becomes difficult.

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International Commission on Radiological Protection

Radiology · 1969 · 2.2K citations

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Cesium-137 deposition and contamination of Japanese soils due to the Fukushima nuclear accident

Teppei J. Yasunari, A. Stohl, R. Hayano et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 650 citations · Full text

Japan: Super-Aging Society Preparing for the Future

Naoko Muramatsu, Hidefumi Akiyama · The Gerontologist · 2011 · 510 citations

Numerical reconstruction of high dose rate zones due to the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

Genki Katata, Hiroaki Terada, Haruyasu Nagai et al. · Journal of Environmental Radioactivity · 2011 · 143 citations

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The Japanese Tsunami and Resulting Nuclear Emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Facility: Technical, Radiologic, and Response Perspectives

Lawrence T. Dauer, Pat Zanzonico, R. Michael Tuttle et al. · Journal of Nuclear Medicine · 2011 · 106 citations · Full text

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