Radioactive material from Fukushima disaster turns up in a surprising place
Some of highest levels of cesium-137 contamination are in groundwater under nearby sandy beaches
By
Laurel Hamers
3:30pm, October 2, 2017
Six years after the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in Japan, radioactive material is leaching into the Pacific Ocean from an unexpected place. Some of the highest levels of radioactive cesium-137, a major by-product of nuclear power generation, are now found in the somewhat salty groundwater beneath sand beaches tens of kilometers away, a new study shows.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/radioactive-cesium-fukushima-groundwater?tgt=nr
