ocean contamination

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New readings show levels of radioisotopes found up to 30 kilometers offshore from the on-going crisis at Fukushima are ten times higher than those measured in the Baltic and Black Seas during Chernobyl. "When it comes to the oceans, says Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceonographer at the Woods...

Link RemovedJapan's nuclear safety agency says radioactive iodine has been detected at more than 3,000 times the allowable level in the ocean near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Officials said Wednesday that the water sample, with the highest levels yet recorded, was collected about 300...

The, Japanese so far have no idea how to deal with all the highly radioactive water, used to cool the, reactors down . It is also feared that the water may have now got into the ocean and soil via tunnels under the reactors . If so every effort to cool the plant down is leading to higher and...