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. 2020 Jul 9;19:82. doi: 10.1186/s12940-020-00630-w

Table 3.

Distances of the centers of the Japanese prefectures’ area polygons from the FDNPP, Cs-137 deposition in the Japanese prefectures after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accidents as of March 2011 according to [48], rescaled Cs-137 deposition according to [4850], and dose-rate [μSv/h] derived from the rescaled deposition; see https://www.unscear.org/docs/publications/2013/UNSCEAR_2013_Annex-A_Attach_C-2.xls and http://www.pnas.org/content/108/49/19530.full

Prefecture ISO code distance from FDNPP [km] Cs-137 [Bq/m2] Yasunari et al. Cs-137 [Bq/m2] rescaled μSv/h
Fukushima 7 72.4 24,718.4 a106867.0 0.8696
Miyagi 4 113.8 44,696.6 83,416.9 0.6903
Ibaraki 8 139.7 26,368.9 65,259.1 0.5513
Tochigi 9 134.9 17,380.7 40,982.0 0.3651
Iwate 3 242.6 6022.7 31,908.4 0.2954
Yamagata 6 140.5 12,755.5 31,826.5 0.2948
Saitama 11 217.9 5256.1 24,011.4 0.2347
Tokyo 13 237.1 4063.0 20,854.3 0.2105
Kanagawa 14 270.1 2435.5 14,962.8 0.1652
Chiba 12 226.0 2878.0 13,826.4 0.1564
Gunma 10 208.6 2317.9 9971.1 0.1268
Kochi 39 824.6 137.0 3921.2 0.0802
Aomori 2 373.7 401.7 3860.4 0.0797
Shizuoka 22 360.0 284.7 2598.8 0.0700
Hiroshima 34 805.1 87.0 2409.4 0.0686
Akita 5 263.9 366.6 2180.4 0.0668
Tottori 31 681.3 93.1 2047.9 0.0658
Tokushima 36 727.7 51.0 1228.6 0.0595
Ehime 38 852.5 38.4 1150.7 0.0589
Fukui 18 464.1 88.3 1144.0 0.0588
Oita 44 990.4 27.7 1020.7 0.0579
Yamanashi 19 295.1 146.8 1018.7 0.0578
Shimane 32 810.6 35.7 998.0 0.0577
Kyoto 26 556.7 48.4 805.9 0.0562
Hyogo 28 614.8 41.6 794.2 0.0561
Mie 24 529.8 51.0 793.0 0.0561
Gifu 21 399.2 73.8 776.9 0.0560
Wakayama 30 633.8 36.1 718.8 0.0555
Aichi 23 433.3 48.1 566.9 0.0544
Shiga 25 503.0 37.1 537.1 0.0541
Nara 29 579.5 29.2 513.9 0.0540
Ishikawa 17 386.6 48.1 484.5 0.0537
Miyazaki 45 1061.8 11.7 474.5 0.0537
Kagawa 37 730.6 18.9 457.8 0.0535
Kagoshima 46 1150.0 9.5 430.1 0.0533
Osaka 27 586.9 24.0 429.8 0.0533
Okayama 33 706.9 17.5 405.0 0.0531
Yamaguchi 35 928.0 11.8 397.5 0.0531
Hokkaido 1 674.5 16.0 347.1 0.0527
Saga 41 1092.6 7.9 333.3 0.0526
Fukuoka 40 1034.8 8.5 332.7 0.0526
Nagasaki 42 1126.0 6.8 299.1 0.0523
Niigata 15 184.2 77.2 279.7 0.0522
Nagano 20 302.8 36.7 263.9 0.0520
Kumamoto 43 1070.2 5.1 209.1 0.0516
Toyama 16 346.3 13.4 116.0 0.0509
Okinawa 47 1727.5 0.8 63.5 0.0505

aaccording to n = 2160 locations with Cs-137 Bq < 2.0E+ 6 in the Excel file of reference [49];