After Japan Nuclear Power Plant Disaster: How Much Radioactivity in the Oceans?

After Japan Nuclear Power Plant Disaster: How Much Radioactivity in the Oceans?
Wed, 18 May 2011 12:53:00 -0500

Among the casualties of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan was the country's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

A result of the loss of electricity, overheating at the power plant led to significant releases of iodine, cesium and other radioisotopes to the environment.

Japanese officials recently raised the severity of the nuclear power plant incident to level 7, the highest level on the international scale and comparable only to the Chernobyl ...

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