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Groundwater testing equipment set up on a beach in Sendai, Japan, near Fukushima.

Groundwater testing equipment set up on a beach in Sendai, Japan, near Fukushima.
Groundwater testing equipment set up on a beach in Sendai, Japan, near Fukushima.
Groundwater testing equipment set up on a beach in Sendai, Japan, near Fukushima.
Groundwater testing equipment set up on a beach in Sendai, Japan, near Fukushima.
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Buesseler, Kenneth O.
Groundwater testing equipment set up on a beach in Sendai, Japan, near Fukushima.
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09/14/2013
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Members of the lab run by WHOI chemist Matt Charette installed equipment near the city of Sendai during a trip to Northeast Japan to collect groundwater samples. Charette and WHOI colleague Ken Buesseler recently found a previously unsuspected place where radioactive material from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster has accumulatedin sands and brackish groundwater beneath beaches as much as 60 miles away. The sands took up and retained radioactive cesium originating from the disaster in 2011 and have been slowly releasing it back to the ocean.
Image Of the Day caption:
Members of the lab run by WHOI chemist Matt Charette installed equipment on a beach during a recent trip to Northeast Japan. In addition to collecting groundwater samples near the city of Sendai (shown here), the group joined a cruise on the Japanese research vessel Dai-san Kaiyo Maru to help collect water, fish, and sediment samples less than one mile from Fukushima Dai-ichi to track the spread and impact of radionuclides from the crippled nuclear power plant.
Photo by Ken Buesseler
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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