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Copyright © 2012 by The Geochemical Society of Japan. with researchers from neighboring fields. Considering these situations, the GSJ proposed to organize special sessions on research activities related to the FDNPP accident on the occasions of the 2011 Goldschmidt Conference and 2011 Annual Meeting of the GSJ. For the Fukushima Review session of the 2011 Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, nine papers (all invited) were orally presented on August 16, 2011. After the session, a statement (Supplementary Materials) was appealed by the presidents of three societies, Drs. Mitsuru Ebihara, Bernard Bourdon, and Samuel Mukasa, on behalf of the GSJ, the European Association of Geochemistry, and the Geochemical Society, respectively (Society Presidents’ Joint Statement on Fukushima, 2011). In this statement, the disclosure of monitoring data on radioactive material, continued monitoring of the spread of radioactive materials, and international alliance of researchers for the global monitoring of radioactive materials were strongly appealed. In total, 15 papers were presented (i.e., 12 oral and 3 poster presentations) in the session entitled “Geochemistry of environmental pollution and revival from a great disaster” on September 14, 2011 during the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Geochemical Society of Japan held at Hokkaido University, Sapporo. This special issue was made to accommodate the selected papers presented in these two special sessions. The title of this volume was named after the session held at the 2011 Goldschmidt Conference. Here, we introduce the contributions and compare them with those already reported in the literature on the migration of radionuclides emitted from the FDNPP. The FDNPP accident caused a number of radioactive nuclides to be dispersed in the environment. Haba et al. (2012) report the one-year monitoring data of 11 airborne radionuclides (i.e., 140Ba, 137Cs, 136gCs, 134gCs, 133gI, 132Te, 131I, 129mTe, 110mAg, 99Mo, and 95gNb) collected in Wako, Saitama, Japan. The information may be important in the characterization of the FDNPP accident in terms of the Preface: Migration of radionuclides from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident
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