A Brief Review of Preliminary Studies into the Oceanic Impact of Radionuclides from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant

Drs. Richard Dewey, S. Kim Juniper, Steve Mihaly, Akash Sastri, Ocean Networks Canada

Several inquiries have been made to Ocean Networks Canada with regard to the fate and severity of oceanic contamination from the leakage of radioactive material into the Pacific Ocean as a result of the March 2011 damage to the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP). There are on-going studies and assessments of the impacts on the ocean, primarily by the World Health Organization (1) and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (...