Everyday, Every Hour, Radiation the Equivalent of 10 Hiroshima Nuclear Bombs Going into our Oceans Since 2011
Seaborne radiation continues to leak into the Pacific ocean from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. The radiation fallout has now reached much of the Pacific ocean as far as North America.
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Everyday, every hour, radiation the equivalent of 10 Hiroshima nuclear bombs is pouring into our oceans since 2011.
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Japan has since lifted export restrictions, although repeated contaminated water leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi plant prompted South Korea to ban imports from eight regions including Fukushima prefecture in 2013.
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You can assist scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reveal the ongoing spread of radiation across the Pacific and its evolving impacts on the ocean.
In the video below, scientist Patrick Flanagan tells us that Fukushima is far worse than we’ve all been led to believe.