核电站
环境科学
铯
污染
福岛核事故
放射性污染
土壤水分
废物管理
放射性废物
土壤污染
核能
环境化学
核工程
放射化学
作者
Hideyuki Ihara,Ayako Kumagai,Tomoyuki Hori,Kenji Nanba,Tomo Aoyagi,Mitsuru Takasaki,Yoko Katayama
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143844
摘要
Abstract The Great East Japan Earthquake caused a serious accident at the first Fukushima nuclear power plant (NPP), which in turn released a large amount of radionuclides. Little attention has been paid to in-situ soil microorganisms exposed to radioactive contamination by the actual NPP accident. We herein investigated bacterial communities in the radioactive cesium (Cs)-contaminated and non-contaminated soils by high-throughput sequencing. The uppermost and ectorhizosphere soil samples were collected from the base of mugwort grown in the same soil type with the same soil-use history in order to compare the bacterial communities at geographically separated areas. The concentrations of radioactive Cs in the soils ranged from 10 to 563,000 Bq 137Cs/kg dry soil, with the highest concentration being detected at 1 km from the NPP. Alpha-diversity indices, i.e., Chao1, Shannon and Simpson reciprocal, of the sequence data showed the lower bacterial diversity in the most highly Cs-contaminated soil. Principal coordinate analysis with principle components 1 and 3 based on unweighted UniFrac distances indicated the significant difference in bacterial communities of the most contaminated area from those of the other areas. Operational taxonomic unit-based assay revealed higher abundance of the radio-resistant Geodermatophilus bullaregiensis relative in the most contaminated soil. Thus, it was strongly suggested that the radioactive accident facilitated the growth and/or survival of radio-resistant bacteria in the Cs-contaminated soils. The results of this study show that information on the soil type, vegetation and soil-use history enhances the direct comparison of geographically distant soil bacterial communities exposed to different levels of radioactive contamination.
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