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?

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

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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

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