The radiation fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in Japan last March is only beginning to be understood, but one thing seems clear: the figures given by both the Japanese government as well as the Tokyo Electric Power Company back in the spring appear woefully inadequate.
One major area of concern is the amount of radioactive material that wound upin the Pacific Ocean following the tsunami and subsequent disaster at the massive power plant.
Following up on their July report on the impact of Fukushima, France's Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) declared that the amount of cesium 137 Fukushima caused to leak into the Pacific Ocean is "the greatest single contamination by artifical radionuclides of the sea ever seen."
They further asserted that the amount is thirty times the amount estimated by Tokyo Electric Power Company back in May.
Cesium 137 has a 30 year half-life. Such massive contamination of the ocean by this material could present a possible cancer risk for generations to come.
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