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Steve Pike processing first water samples from the West coast.

Steve Pike processing first water samples from the West coast.
Steve Pike processing first water samples from the West coast.
Steve Pike processing first water samples from the West coast.
Steve Pike processing first water samples from the West coast.
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Kostel, Kenneth
Steve Pike processing first water samples from the West coast.
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02/18/2014
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The Center for Marine and Environmental Radioactivity (CMER) at WHOI, a private non-profit marine research and education organization, is launching a project to involve the public in gathering seawater samples and raising funds for analyses that will provide the latest information about radiation levels in the ocean. The data will be published on a website, How Radioactive is Our Ocean?
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WHOI research assistant Steve Pike adds a uranium-233 "spike" to a sample of seawater from the Pacific Ocean that he will measure for the presence of uranium-236. By adding a known quantity of one uranium isotope, he can determine the efficiency of the process that extracts a portion of all of them in a sample of seawater. From this, he can then determine the amount of uranium-236 in the original sample. Pike works in a lab run by WHOI chemist Ken Buesseler, who is studying the spread of radionuclides from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactors.
Photo by Ken Kostel
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