
CHAPTER 6
Radiation Monitoring
6.1 General
On April 22nd the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) issued a press release on
environmental monitoring with the objectives of obtaining an overview
and providing data necessary to support the decision to establish
evacuation routes (IAEA 2011). The plan included the following: data
collection on radioactive material inside an appropriate area, including
the area near the Fukushima Daiichi plant; continuing evaluations of
changes in dose rates and accumulated radioactive materials in zones
near the Fukushima plant; providing maps and other information to
local ...