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Testing the Water

January 15, 2016

WHOI supporter Harry Hollum (left) holds a sampling kit that marine radiochemist Ken Buesseler (right) developed to help citizen scientists on the West Coast collect water to be tested for radioactive contamination from Fukushima. Hollum has sponsored two kits so far as part of Buesseler’s Our Radioactive Ocean project. Buesseler and his colleagues use sophicated sensors located at WHOI to analyze several the samples and have provided a direct link to minute traces of radioactivity in Canadian and U.S. waters back to the damaged reactors at Fukushima.(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)