Somewhere around 350 million gallons of water used to quell the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant meltdown in 2011, and Japan has started discharging that contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean. Cindy Folkers, Radiation and Health Hazard Specialist at Beyond Nuclear, talks about the issues, including failure of testing and disclosure of all the radioisotope contaminants, the effectiveness of “filtering” performed on the water, bioaccumulation of the isotopes, and more.

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