Fukushima Disaster Makes Japan’s Coastal Waters Radioactive

Living on Earth

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.

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