Radioactive 129I waste used to track ocean currents for 15,000 km after discharge from nuclear plants
Date:
August 16, 2017
Source:
Goldschmidt Conference
Summary:
Radioactive 129I has traveled the equivalent of a third of the way round the globe, since being released from nuclear fuel reprocessing plants in the UK and France. The iodine's 15,000 km journey begins in the nuclear plants at Sellafield and La Hague and continues via the Arctic Ocean and then southward via the Grand Banks towards Bermuda, where it is found at very low concentrations about 20 years later.
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170816100323.htm
