Publications

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Publications scientifiques

2026

Production of Limited Commensurability in Crises: Expert Knowledge on Nuclear Accidents after Fukushima, Social Studies of Science.  Arnhold, V. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127251409339

Evidence of Fukushima fallout in the area affected by wildfires in Kamaishi (Iwate Prefecture, Tohoku Region, Japan): Implications for future environmental research using radionuclide tracers. Evrard, O., Takahashi, N., Foucher, A., Chalaux-Clergue, T., Chaboche, P.A. (2026). Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 292, 107876.

Anthropology and Disinformation. Polleri, M. (2026). In: Ginsborg, L., Gori, P. (eds) Disinformation. Springer, Cham.

2025

La politique de reconstruction à Fukushima : lorsque reconstruire détruit. Asanuma-Brice, C. (2025), in « Cohabiter, Livre, Actes des Reclusiennes 2024« ,p. 141-152, ISBN 978-2-919539-41-3, 212 pages.

Territories in Crisis: Is Urban Resilience to Industrial Crises Possible? An Analysis of the Evolution of Land Use in Fukushima since 2011. Asanuma-Brice, C., Hurtut, T. (2025). Asian Studies, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.1011750

Distribution and sources of fallout ¹³⁷Cs and ^239+240Pu in Equatorial and Southern Hemisphere reference soils. Dicen, G., Guillevic, F., Gupta, S., Chaboche, P.A., Meusburger, K., Sabatier, P., Evrard, O., Alewell, C. (2025). Earth System Science Data 17, 1529–1549.

Fukushima and the Politics of Nuclear Disaster Recovery. Polleri, M. (2025). Current History 124 (863), 216–221.

Response of ¹³⁷Cs dynamics in dam lakes to temperature and weather conditions. Tsuji, H., Nishikiori, T., Ito, S., Ozaki, H., Watanabe, M., Sakai, M., Ishii, Y., Hayashi, S. (2025). Environmental Pollution, 378, 126445.

2024

L’indépendance » en question. La construction d’une autonomie relative des organisations nucléaires face au politique en France (1986-2006). Arnhold, V. (2024). Entreprises & Histoire 114 (1): 21-47. https://doi.org/10.3917/eh.114.0021.

Namie (Fukushima), une commune rurale projetée en modèle mondial de résilience post-accident nucléaire. Asanuma-Brice C. (2024). Géoconfluences.

Relative importance of Asian-dust-derived micas estimated from oxygen isotopic analysis of fine quartz on specific retention of radiocesium in Andosols in Tohoku Region, Japan. Kitagawa, Y., Nakao, A., Tanaka, R., Takeda, A., Yamada, D., Evrard, O., Yanai, J. (2024). Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 70(5-6), 375-386.

Territoires en crise : une résilience urbaine aux crises industrielles est-elle possible ? Analyse et bilan de l’évolution de l’occupation des sols à Fukushima (2011-2023). Asanuma-Brice C. and Hurtut T. (2024). Territoire en mouvement. Revue de géographie et aménagement, 60, https://doi.org/10.4000/tem.11015. 

Impacts of farmland decontamination on ¹³⁷Cs transfers in rivers after Fukushima nuclear accident: Evidence from a retrospective sediment core study. Chalaux-Clergue, T., Chaboche, P.A., Foucher, A., Huon, S., Hayashi, S., Tsuji, H., Wakiyama, Y., Nakao, A., Evrard, O. (2024). Science of the Total Environment 947, 174546.

Sensitivity of source sediment fingerprinting to tracer selection methods. Chalaux-Clergue, T., Bizeul, R., Batista, P.V.G., Martínez-Carreras, N., Laceby, J.P., Evrard, O. (2024). SOIL 10, 109–138.

Le devenir environnemental des émissions de radionucléides de la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima. Evrard, O., Wakiyama, Y., Nakao, A., Huon, S., Hayashi, S., Tsuji, H., Cerdan, O. (2024). L’Actualité Chimique 493, 57-60.

2023

Lessons learnt on the impact on an unprecedented soil decontamination program in Fukushima on contaminant fluxes. Vandromme, R., Hayashi, S., Tsuji, H., Evrard, O., Grangeon, T., Landemaine, V., Laceby, J.P., Wakiyama, Y., Cerdan, O. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2023.

Research and management challenges following soil and landscape decontamination at the onset of the reopening of the Difficult-To-Return Zone, Fukushima (Japan) Evrard, O., Chalaux-Clergue, T., Chaboche, P.A., Wakiyama, Y., Thiry, Y. SOIL 9, 479–497, 2023.

Innovative ICP-MS/MS method to determine the ¹³⁵Cs/¹³⁷Cs ratio in low activity environmental samples. Magré, A., Boulet, B., Isnard, H., Mialle, S., Evrard, O., Pourcelot, L. Analytical Chemistry 95 (17), 2023.

Temporal evolution of plutonium concentrations and isotopic ratios in the Ukedo-Takase Rivers draining the Difficult-To-Return Zone in Fukushima, Japan (2013–2020),Diacre, A., Burban, S., Chalaux, T.G., Gauthier, C., Hubert, A., Humbert, A.C., Lefèvre, I., Marie, O., Fauré, A.L., Pointurier, F., Evrard, O. (2023). Environmental Pollution 319, 120963.

Why Did so Few Refugees Return to the Fukushima Fallout-Impacted Region after Remediation? An Interdisciplinary Case Study from Iitate Village, Japan. Cécile Asanuma-Brice, Olivier Evrard, Thomas G. Chalaux. Disaster, Risk, Reduction, The Elsevier, SSRN, February 2023.

2022

From Secrecy to Public Containment: The Role of Hybrid Spaces in the Governance of Nuclear Crises in France, Valerie Arnhold. Social Forces, September 2022.

Naoto Kan. Parcours d’un Premier ministre atypique, in Aurélien Portelli, Franck Guarnieri (dir.) L’accident de Fukushima : le Premier ministre du Japon face à la crise nucléaire, Mathieu Gaulene, March 2022.

Impact of radiocesium contamination in flood sediment deposited after the 2019 typhoon on decontaminated fields of Fukushima Prefecture, Japancalise U-bearing particles in environmental samples, Ikumi Asano, Nodoka Harada, Atsushi Nakao, Olivier Evrardand Junta Yana. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, Volume 354 (2022), pp. 131-140., March 2022.

Comparison of techniques to localise U-bearing particles in environmental samples, Aurélie Diacre, Pascal Fichet, Paul Sardini, Jérôme Donnard, Anne-Laure Fauré, Olivier Marie, Katsumi Shozugawa, Michaël Susset, Mayumi Hori, Takizawa Tsutomu, Fabien Pointurier & Olivier Evrard. JRadioanal Nucl Chem, March 2022.

How to evaluate sediment fingerprinting source apportionments, P.V.G Batista, J.P Laceby, O. Evrard. Journal of Soils and Sediments, vol. 22, Issue 2, February 2022.

Normaliser l’apocalypse. Organisations et recompositions du secteur nucléaire face aux accidents, Arnhold, V. Thèse de doctorat en sociologie, Institut d’études politiques de Paris, January 2022.

Factors Controlling the Dissolved ¹³⁷Cs Seasonal Fluctuations in the Abukuma River Under the Influence of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident, Yasunori Igarashi, Kenji Nanba, Toshihiro Wada, Yoshifumi Wakiyama, Yuichi Onda, Shota Moritaka, Alexei Konoplev. JGR Biogeosciences, vol. 127, Issue 1, 2022.

2021

Fukushima : une reconstruction périlleuse, Asanuma-Brice Cécile. Raison présente, vol. 220, no. 4, 2021, pp. 71-80.

A worldwide meta-analysis (1977–2020) of sediment core dating using fallout radionuclides including ¹³⁷Cs and ²¹⁰Pb_xs, Foucher A., Chaboche P.A., Sabatier P., Evrard O., Earth System Science Data, 2021, 13, 4951–4966

Possible solubilization of various mineral elements in the rhizosphere of Lupinus albus L, Takao A., Wasaki J., Fushimoto H., Maruyama H., Shinano T., Watanabe T., Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2021

Normalisation of nuclear accidents after the Cold War, Arnhold, V, Cold War History, 2021, n°21 (3), pp. 261-281.

Fukushima ˸ un accident «Made in Japan» ? Analyse sémiotique de la causalité au Japon Mathieu Gaulène, Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2021

ガイアの危機と生命圏（BIO）デザイン 新たなコミュニティの創造へ, Itonaga K., Berque A., Asanuma-Brice C., Biocity 88 , 2021

Radioactive Performances: Teaching about Radiation after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Polleri M., Anthropological Quarterly, 2021, 94, 1, 93-123

The Hermeneutics of Radiation and the Three Tsunamis, Jobin P., The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan focus, 2021, 19, 17, 6

Radionuclide contamination in flood sediment deposits in the coastal rivers draining the main radioactive pollution plume of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan (2011–2020), Evrard O., Chartin C., Laceby J.P., Onda Y., Wakiyama Y., Nakao A., Cerdan O., Lepage H., Jaegler H., Vandromme R., Lefèvre I., Bonté P., Earth System Science Data, 2021, 13, 2555–2560

Distance-dependence from volcano for Asian dust inclusions in Andosols: a key to control soil ability to retain radiocesium., Nakao, A., Uno, S., Yanai,J., Kubotera, H., Tanaka, R., Root, R.A., Kosaki, T., Geoderma, 2021, 385, 114889

Seasonal dynamics of the activities of dissolved ¹³⁷Cs and the ¹³⁷Cs of fish in a shallow, hypereutrophic lake: Links to bottom-water oxygen concentrations, Matsuzaki S., Tanaka A., Kohzu A., Suzuki K., Komatsu K., Shinohara R., Nakagawa M., Nohara S., Ueno R., Satake K., Hayashi S., Science of The Total Environment, 2021, 761, 143257

Radiocesium distribution and mid-term dynamics in the ponds of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant exclusion zone in 2015–2019,  Konoplev, A., Wakiyama, Y., Wada, T., Udy, C., Kanivets, V., M.Ivanov, M., Komissarov, M., Takase, T., Goto, A., Nanba., K., Chemosphere, 2021, 265, 129058

2020

Post-political Uncertainties: Governing Nuclear Controversies in Post-Fukushima Japan, Polleri M, Social Studies of Science, 2020, 50(4): 567-588.

Impact of the 2019 typhoons on sediment source contributions and radiocesium concentrations in rivers draining the Fukushima radioactive plume, Japan, Evrard O., Durand R., Nakao A., Laceby J.P., Lefèvre I., Wakiyama Y., Hayashi S., Asanuma-Brice C., Cerdan O., CR-Géosciences, 2020, 3, 199-211

Landside tritium leakage over through years from Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant and relationship between countermeasures and contaminated water K. Shozugawa, M. Hori, T. E. Johnson, N. Takahata, Y. Sano, N. Kavasi, S. K. Sahoo, M. Matsuo, Cerdan O., Scientific Reports volume 10, 2020, Article number: 19925

Accidents without borders’ ? The renationalization of a global problem in French media spaces Arnhold, V., Neveu E., Surdez M., Globalizing Issues. How do claims, frames and problems cross borders?, 2020

Radioactive Games? Radiation Hazard Assessment of the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games R. Querfeld, M. Hori, A. Weller, D. Degering, K. Shozugawa, G. Steinhauser, Environmental Science & Technology, 2020, 54(18), 11414-11423

Pretreatment conditions for detecting ¹³⁴Cs -Eight years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident K. Shozugawa, M. Hori, Journal of Nuclear and Radiochemical Sciences, 2020, 54(18), 20, 25-27.

Advanced approach for screening soil with a low radiocesium transfer to brown rice in Fukushima based on exchangeable and nonexchangeable potassium, Kurokawa, K., Nakao, A., Wakabayashi, S., Fujimura, S.,  Eguchi, T., Matsunami, H., Yanai, J., Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 743, 140458

Radionuclides from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in terrestrial systems, Onda, Y., Taniguchi, K., Yoshimura, K., Kato, H., Takahashi, J., Wakiyama, Y., Coppin, F., Smith, H., Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2020, 1, 644-660

A global review of sediment source fingerprinting research incorporating fallout radiocesium (¹³⁷Cs), Evrard, O., Chaboche, P.A., Ramon, R., Foucher, A., Laceby, J.P., Geomorphology, 2020, 359, 107103 (Invited research article)

Improving the communication of risks before, during, and after a nuclear accident, Polleri, M., Tracy C., Likhacheva E., Stepnykh E., Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. August 2020

Suspended Particle–Water Interactions Increase Dissolved ¹³⁷Cs Activities in the Nearshore Seawater during Typhoon Hagibis, Takata, H., Aono, T., Aoyama, M., Inoue, M., Kaeriyama, H., Suzuki, S., Tsuruta, T., Wada, T., Wakiyama, Y., Environ. Sci. Technol. 2020, 54, 17, 10678–10687

フランス・ヨーロッパにおける気候非常事態への緊急対応, Asanuma-Brice C., Biocity, april 2020, n°82

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction at Five: Lessons from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, Maly, E., Suppasri A., International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, april 2020, 11, 167-178

Ten Years into Recovery after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Evaluation by Post-2015 Frameworks, Maly E., J-SustaiN, 2020, Vol 7 No 3 Special issue, 44-57

Different factors determine ¹³⁷Cs concentration factors of freshwater fish and aquatic organisms in lake and river ecosystems, Ishii Y., Matsuzaki S., Hayashi S., Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 2020, 2013, 106102

2019

Effectiveness of landscape decontamination following the Fukushima nuclear accident: a review, Evrard, O., Laceby, J.P., Nakao, A., SOIL, 2019, 5, 1–18.

La normalisation de l’accident de Fukushima, Arnhold, V., Sociologie du Travail, 2019, n° 61 (1).

Conflictual Collaboration: Citizen Science and the Governance of Radioactive Contamination after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Polleri, M., American Ethnologist, 2019, 46(2): 214-226.

Recommendation for the Fukushima project from foreign scientists, Evrard, O., In: Environmental Contamination from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Nakajima, T., Ohara, T., Uematsu, M., Onda, Y. (Ed.) 2019, Cambridge University Press, London. 

Diffusion and Deposition of Radioactive Materials in the Terrestrial Environment, Evrard, O., Laceby J. P., In: Environmental Contamination from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Nakajima, T., Ohara, T., Uematsu, M., Onda, Y. (Ed.) 2019, Cambridge University Press, London. 

Environmental DNA provides information on sediment sources: A study in catchments affected by Fukushima radioactive fallout, Evrard, O., Laceby, J.P., Ficetola, G.F., Gielly, L., Huon, S., Lefèvre, I., Onda, Y., Poulenard, J., Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 665, 873–881.

Using spectrocolourimetry to trace surface and subsurface sediment sources in coastal catchments draining the main Fukushima radioactive pollution plume (2011–2017), Evrard, O., Durand, R., Foucher, A., Tiecher, T., Sellier, V., Onda, Y., Lefèvre, I., Cerdan, O., Laceby, J.P.,  Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2019, 19, 3290–3301.

Radiocarbon and radiocesium in litter fall at Kawamata, ~45km NW from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (Japan)., Paterne, M., Evrard, O., Hatté, C., Laceby, J.P., Nouet, J., Onda, Y., Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2019, 319(3), 1093–1101.

Huit ans après Fukushima, où en est le Japon avec l’énergie nucléaire ?, Asanuma-Brice C., Géoconfluences, ENS Lyon, mars 2019

The Evolution of Localized Housing Recovery in Japan, Maly E., Iwata, T., IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2019, 273, 012055

Reconstruction of uranium and plutonium isotopic signatures in sediment accumulated in the Mano Dam reservoir, Japan, before and after the Fukushima nuclear accident, Jaegler, H., Pointurier, F., Siez- Fernández, S., Gourgiotis, A., Isnard, H., Hayashi, S., Tsuji, H., Onda, Y., Hubert, A., Laceby, J.P., Evrard, O., Chemosphere, 2019, 225, 849-858.

A methodology for detecting and characterising actinide-bearing micro-particles in soils and sediment of the Fukushima Prefecture, Japan., Jaegler, H., Pointurier, F., Onda, Y., Angulo, J.F, Griffiths, N.M., Moureau, A., Faure, A.L., Marie, O., Hubert, A., Evrard, O.,  Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2019, 321, 57–69.

Archives

Fukushima, l’impossible retour dans les villages de l’ancienne zone d’évacuation : l’exemple d’Iitate, Asanuma-Brice C., Géoconfluences, ENS Lyon, octobre 2018

Source dynamics of radiocesium contaminated particulate matter deposited in an agricultural water reservoir after the Fukushima nuclear accident, Huon, S., Hayashi, S., Laceby, J.P., Tsuji, H., Onda, Y., Evrard, O.,  Science of the Total Environment, 2018, 612, 1079-1090.

Plutonium isotopic signatures in soils and their variation (2011–2014) in sediment transiting a coastal river in the Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Jaegler, H., Pointurier, F., Onda, Y., Hubert, A., Laceby, J.P., Cirella, M., Evrard, O., Environmental Pollution, 2018, 240, 167-176.

Les migrants du nucléaire, Asanuma-Brice C., Géoconfluences, ENS Lyon, octobre 2017

Le nucléaire en Asie, Mathieu Gaulène, Editions Picquier, 2016

原子力カタストロフの際に原子力国家が移住避難に対し行う管理について, Asanuma-Brice C., The Kanagawa University Review, 2015, 79

Beyond reality – or – An illusory ideal: pro-nuclear Japan’s management of migratory flows in a nuclear catastrophe, Asanuma-Brice C., The Asia-Pacific Journal – Japan Focus, 2014, 12, 47, 1

Fukushima, une démocratie en souffrance, Asanuma-Brice C., Outre-terre, 2013/1, 35-36, 457-47

Les politiques publiques de logement face à la catastrophe du 11 mars, Asanuma-Brice C., EBISU, 2012, 47, 205-214

Le mouvement antinucléaire japonais depuis Fukushima, Mathieu Gaulène, Science Po Ceri CNRS, Juin 2012

Convertir les « allergiques à l’atome » : la promotion du nucléaire au Japon, Mathieu Gaulène, Ebisu, 47 | 2012, 107-118.

Logement social nippon, quand la notion de « public » retrouve raison, Asanuma-Brice C., Urbanisme, 2011, 381

Logement social nippon : un bilan après la catastrophe du 11 mars 2011, Asanuma-Brice C., Informations sociales, 2011/6, 168, 34-44

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Bases de données

Fallout radionuclide activities and inventories in the area affected by the 2017 wildfire in Kamaishi (Iwate Prefecture, Tohoku Region, Japan). Evrard, O., Chalaux-Clergue, T., Takahashi, N., Chaboche, P.-A., Sato, H., Ohta, R., & Foucher, A. (2025).[Data set]. Zenodo.

Precipitation and rainfall erosivity datasets for Northeastern Japan over 2011-2024: 10-minute precipitation records, rainfall event characteristics, and processed summary tables (year, month, typhoon season, single most and three most erosive events) from 58 JMA weather stations located within a 110-km radius around Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant. Chalaux-Clergue, T., Chaboche, P.-A., Wakiyama, Y., & Evrard, O. (2025). (Version 20251110) [Data set]. Zenodo.

Diagnostic Properties of River Flood Deposit Sediment Collected Annually from 2011 to 2023 at Ten Sites across a Water Reservoir Catchment Contaminated after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident Radiocesium Fallout (Mano Dam). Chalaux-Clergue, T., Tenaud, N., Durand, R., Caumon, A., Wakiyama, Y., Laceby, J. P., Lefèvre, I., Huon, S., Vaury, V., Mendes-Millan, M., Ogier, A., Onda, Y., Nakao, A., & Evrard, O. (2024). (Version 1) [Data set]. Zenodo.

Diagnostic Properties of Three Sediment Cores Collected in 2021-2022 from Three Water Reservoirs Draining Contaminated Catchments after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident (Mano Dam, Ogaki Dam, and Yokokawa Dam). Chalaux-Clergue, T., Chaboche, P.-A., Tenaud, N., Durand, R., Caumon, A., Hayashi, S., Tsuji, H., Funaki, H., Yoshimura, K., Wakiyama, Y., Laceby, J. P., Murayama, M., Matsuzaki, T., Lefèvre, I., Huon, S., Vaury, V., Mendes-Millan, M., Ogier, A., Nakao, A., & Evrard, O. (2024). (Version 1) [Data set]. Zenodo.

Organic Matter, Geochemical, Visible Spectrocolorimetric Properties, Radiocesium Properties, and Grain Size of Potential Source Material, Target Sediment Core Layers and Laboratory Mixtures for Conducting Sediment Fingerprinting Approaches in the Mano Dam Reservoir (Hayama Lake) Catchment, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Chalaux-Clergue, T., Evrard, O., Durand, R., Caumon, A., Hayashi, S., Tsuji, H., Huon, S., Vaury, V., Wakiyama, Y., Nakao, A., Laceby, J. P., & Onda, Y. (2024). (Version 2) [Data set]. Zenodo.

Organic matter, geochemical and colorimetric properties of potential source material, target sediment and laboratory mixtures for conducting sediment fingerprinting approaches in the Mano Dam Reservoir (Hayama Lake) catchment, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan Chalaux Clergue, T., Evrard, O., et al. Zenodo, 2023.

Spatial datasets associated with decontamination and remediation operations following the Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan (2011–2023) Evrard, O., Chalaux Clergue, T., Chaboche, P.A., Wakiyama, Y., Thiry, Y. Zenodo, 2023.

Mapping of solar panels and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident-associated radioactive waste storage in 2022 and 2023, Fukushima, Japan Cécile Asanuma-Brice, Jérôme Arnaud. Zenodo, 10.5281/zenodo.7796792, Avril 2023.

Data on ¹³⁷Cs concentration factor of freshwater fish and aquatic organisms in lake and river ecosystems, Ishii Y., Matsuzaki S., Hayashi S., Data in Brief, 2020, 28, 105043

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