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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 05:52 AM
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10. Fukushima "Worse Than Chernobyl" When It Comes To Oceans
Is this what you're talking about?
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/05/fukushima-worse-than-chernobyl-when-it-comes-to-oceans.php

Fukushima "Worse Than Chernobyl" When It Comes To Oceans

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Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Henrieta Dulaiova, chemical oceanographer at University of Hawaii have each been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences to study the issue further, looking in to concentrations of radionuclides in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Their work will provide insight into just how much radiation our oceans are bearing from the disaster and what that might mean for the environment.
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http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=119577&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click

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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 incident 25 years ago, says Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

"When it comes to the oceans, however," says Buesseler, "the impact of Fukushima exceeds Chernobyl."
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