Infographic measuring amount of radioisotopes at 3 different nuclear disasters
The amount of cesium-137 radioisotopes from the Fukushima disaster in surface ocean waters was 10,000 to 100,000 times greater than amounts that entered the ocean from the Chernobyl accident or atmospheric nuclear weapons tests. (Illustration by Eric S. Taylor, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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