Artificial radionuclides in neon flying squid from the northwestern Pacific in 2011 following the Fukushima accident

Yu, Wen; Johansen, Mathew P.; He, Jianhua; Men, Wu; Lin, Longshan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-7235-2018

Articles | Volume 15, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-7235-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-7235-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 23

Research article

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05 Dec 2018

Research article |

| 05 Dec 2018

Artificial radionuclides in neon flying squid from the northwestern Pacific in 2011 following the Fukushima accident

Wen Yu, Mathew P. Johansen, Jianhua He, Wu Men, and Longshan Lin

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RC1: 'Artificial Radionuclides in Squid from northwestern Pacific 1 in 2011 following the Fukushima accident', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 May 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to the comments from the anonymous reviewer', Wen Yu, 31 May 2018
RC2: 'review July 2018', Anonymous Referee #3, 10 Jul 2018
- AC2: 'Response to Anonymous Referee 3', Wen Yu, 01 Aug 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (07 Aug 2018) by Manmohan Sarin

AR by Wen Yu on behalf of the Authors (30 Aug 2018)

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (31 Aug 2018) by Manmohan Sarin

RR by Anonymous Referee #4 (17 Sep 2018)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (11 Oct 2018) by Manmohan Sarin

AR by Wen Yu on behalf of the Authors (24 Oct 2018)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (06 Nov 2018) by Manmohan Sarin

AR by Wen Yu on behalf of the Authors (09 Nov 2018) Author's response Manuscript

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To better understand the impact of the Fukushima accident on commercial marine species, neon flying squid samples obtained from the NW Pacific in Nov 2011 were analyzed for a range of radionuclides. Elevated levels of Cs-134 and Ag-110m from the Fukushima accident were found in the samples, with an extremely high concentration ratio for Ag-110m. However, the radiological dose for squid living in the study area, and for human consumers of these squid, was far below the recommended dose limits.