via Wall Street Journal / by Yuko Takeo / May 13, 2013 / A new study offers fresh insights into how radioactive contamination from the Fukushima nuclear disaster may have spread through Japan’s interconnected waterways, reaching some freshwater fish hundreds of kilometers away. The research by two Japanese academics published in “Nature” magazine late last month reports traces of cesium found in 2011 “even in Shizuoka prefecture, 400 km south-west from the … Continue reading →
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Toshiaki Mizuno1 Hideya Kubo1 Affiliations Contributions Corresponding author Scientific Reports 3, Article number: 1742 doi:10.1038/srep01742 Received 13 March 2012 Accepted 05 April 2013 Published 29 April 2013 Article tools PDF Download as PDF (536 KB) View interactive PDF in ReadCube Citation Reprints Rights & permissions Metrics This paper focuses on an overview of radioactive cesium 137 (quasi-Cs137 included Cs134) contamination of freshwater fish in Fukushima and eastern Japan based … Continue reading →
Continue readingby Monte Burke / via Forbes / February 20, 2013 / Last May I wrote a piece about Bluefin tuna caught off the coast of southern California that carried radiation from the Fukushima, Japan, nuclear plant that was damaged in the March 2011. The fish were …
Continue readingby Cherrie Lou Bullones / The Japan Daily Press / January 21, 2013 / A murasoi fish, comparable to a rockfish, was found at a port in the area of the now-closed Fukushima nuclear power plant, which contained 254,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium, a…
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / December 26, 2012 / The catastrophe at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant not only affected people directly in Fukushima Prefecture but also harmed the local economy. Sales of products from the prefectu…
Continue readingBy Hiroshi Ishizuka / The Asahi Shimbun / November 13, 2012 / Persistently high radioactivity in some fish caught close to the Fukushima nuclear plant has sparked a government investigation into the physiological basis for contamination and why radiati…
Continue readingScience 26 October 2012: Vol. 338 no. 6106 pp. 480-482 DOI: 10.1126/science.1228250 Fishing for Answers off Fukushima Ken O. Buesseler Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA. E-mail: kbuesseler{at}whoi.edu The triple disaster o…
Continue readingby Fiona Harvey / The Guardian / October 25, 2012 / Fish from the waters around the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan could be too radioactive to eat for a decade to come, as samples show that radioactivity levels remain elevated and show little sign of…
Continue readingby Charlie Wells / via NY Daily News / September 7, 2012 / Scientists think there might be something fishy about the quarter-ton tuna an Australian man caught off the coast of New Zealand. It took two hours and 128 pounds of tackle for Paul Worsteling …
Continue readingby Charlie Wells / via NY Daily News / September 7, 2012 / Scientists think there might be something fishy about the quarter-ton tuna an Australian man caught off the coast of New Zealand. It took two hours and 128 pounds of tackle for Paul Worsteling …
Continue readingby Deborah Dupre / Examiner.com / August 30, 2012 / The central government of Japan has ordered Aomori Prefecture to suspend shipping Pacific cod caught near the port of Hachinohe due to excessive levels of cesium detected, according to The Japan Times…
Continue readingvia The Daily Yomiuri / August 23, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. has said that 38,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram have been detected in a fish caught for sampling about 20 kilometers offshore from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclea…
Continue readingvia The Telegraph / August 3, 2012 / Octopus from the sea off Fukushima is back on sale at Tokyo’s Tsukiji Seafood Market – at a premium price. It is the first time since Tokyo Electric’s Fukushima No 1 Nuclear Power Plant started lea…
Continue readingvia MsMilkytheClown / July 14, 2012 / Noda goes NE to see how “reconstruction” of that area is – promises to help fishermen after land sank one meter after earthquake/tsunami. Fukushima doing test catches of seafood to check safety an…
Continue readingvia NHK / July 14, 2012 / Fishermen in Fukushima, Japan, have begun a new round of test catches of marine products. The fishermen hope to be able to put them on the market if they prove safe in terms of radioactive materials following last year’s…
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