Ken Buesseler

Ken Buesseler

Marine radiochemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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Japan began releasing nearly 8,000 tons of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean today.

Japan dumps treated nuclear wastewater into ocean. Will marine life get sick?

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It’s been six years since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster.

6 years after Fukushima, nuclear waste has reached the US

It’s been six years since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster.

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