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Fukushima Disaster Makes Japan’s Coastal Waters Radioactive

Tests have confirmed that highly radioactive water has escaped Japan’s disabled nuclear facility and reached into the Pacific Ocean. Cesium and Iodine contamination are big concerns but scientists think the irradiated water will be diluted by the vastness of the ocean.

Radioactive water has leaked out of Japan’s crippled nuclear reactors and into the Pacific Ocean. Living on Earth’s Bruce Gellerman talks with University of Michigan nuclear engineering professor Kimberlee Kearfott, about how the radioactive water might affect marine life.