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October 29, 2012
Fukushima fish still contaminated from nuclear accident
New York Times Syndication
Levels of radioactive contamination in fish caught off the east coast of Japan remain raised, official data shows.
It is a sign that the Dai-ichi power plant continues to be a source of pollution more than a year after the nuclear accident. About 40 percent of fish caught close to Fukushima itself are regarded as unfit for humans under Japanese regulations. The respected U.S. marine chemist Ken Buesseler hasreviewed the data in this week?s Science journal.
He says there are probably two sources of lingering contamination. ?There is the ongoing leakage into the ocean of polluted ground water from under Fukushima, and there is the contamination that?s already in the sediments just offshore,? he told BBC News.
?It all points to this issue being long-term and one that will need monitoring for decades into the future.?
Buesseler is affiliated to the U.S. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His evaluation covers a year?s worth of data gathered by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries...
Fukushima fish still contaminated from nuclear accident
New York Times Syndication
Levels of radioactive contamination in fish caught off the east coast of Japan remain raised, official data shows.
It is a sign that the Dai-ichi power plant continues to be a source of pollution more than a year after the nuclear accident. About 40 percent of fish caught close to Fukushima itself are regarded as unfit for humans under Japanese regulations. The respected U.S. marine chemist Ken Buesseler hasreviewed the data in this week?s Science journal.
He says there are probably two sources of lingering contamination. ?There is the ongoing leakage into the ocean of polluted ground water from under Fukushima, and there is the contamination that?s already in the sediments just offshore,? he told BBC News.
?It all points to this issue being long-term and one that will need monitoring for decades into the future.?
Buesseler is affiliated to the U.S. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His evaluation covers a year?s worth of data gathered by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries...
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