Ocean Contamination in the Wake of Japan's 3.11 Disaster
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2133187 |
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| Authors | Miguel Quintana (0000-0002-6751-1679), Miguel A Quintana (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1557466012015860 |
| OpenAlex | W4410182801 |
| Language | EN |
Radioactive particles released after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continue to spread along the seashore and rivers of eastern Japan, creating underwater hotspots as far as Tokyo Bay, according to recent scientific studies. But the full magnitude and impact of the contamination, already considered the largest case of unintended marine pollution by radionuclides in history, has yet to be established
Biology · Contamination · Geography · Meteorology · Wake · Engineering · Environmental Science · Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation · Aerospace Engineering · Geology · Oceanography
| Highly cited | No |
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