First successful isolation of radioactive solid particles from the soils obtained from heavily radionuclide-contaminated zone after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident.
The particles are larger and more active than those observed in previous studies.
Silicates are one of the major elements in the radioactive particles, which are different from that of the Chernobyl hot particles.
The radioactive particles are important for understandings of environmental dynamics studies of radioactive materials from the F1NPP accident, removal of the materials from the living areas, and process of the accident.