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Decontamination Efficiencies of Pot-Type Water Purifiers for 131I, 134Cs and 137Cs in Rainwater Contaminated during Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster 1 2 Shogo Higaki *, Masahiro Hirota 1 Radioisotope Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2 School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Abstract Rainwater was contaminated by a large release of radionuclides into the environment during the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. It became a matter of concern for Japan when several water purification plants detected 131I contamination in the drinking water. In the present study, the decontamination efficiency of two easily obtainable commercial water purifiers were examined for rainwater contaminated with 131I, 134Cs and 137Cs. The water purifiers removed 94.2–97.8% of the 131I and 84.2–91.5% of the 134Cs and 137Cs after one filtration. Seven filtrations removed 98.2–99.6% of the 131I and over 98.0% of the 134Cs and 137Cs. From a practical perspective, over the fourth filtrations were not needed because of no significant improvements after the third filtration. Citation: Higaki S, Hirota M (2012) Decontamination Efficiencies of Pot-Type Water Purifiers for 131I, 134Cs and 137Cs in Rainwater Contaminated during Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster. PLoS ONE 7(5): e37184. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037184 Editor: Jack Anthony Gilbert, Argonne National Laboratory, United States of America Received February 20, 2012; Accepted April 17, 2012; Published May 16, 2012 Copyright: 2012 Higaki, Hirota. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: These authors have no support or funding to report. Competing