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Fukushima Radiation Tracked Across Pacific Ocean
Jesse Emspak, LiveScience – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
Radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear disaster has been found in tiny sea creatures and ocean water some 186 miles (300 kilometers) off the coast of Japan, revealing the extent of the release and the direction pollutants might take in a future environmental disaster. With these results, detailed today (April 2, 2012) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team estimates it will take at least a year or two for the radioactive material released at Fukushima to get across the Pacific Ocean.
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