So far, so good, but continued monitoring is needed, as the story shows. The good news is that there isn’t wide spread dangerous levels being seen in waters that are easily tied to the food chain, and to the surface. But obviously, this is preliminary data, and will need more study.
An international research team is reporting the results of a research cruise they organized to study the amount, spread, and impacts of radiation released into the ocean from the tsunami-crippled reactors in Fukushima, Japan. The group of 17 researchers and technicians from eight institutions spent 15 days at sea in June 2011 studying ocean currents, and sampling water and marine organisms up to the edge of the exclusion zone around the reactors.
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