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"Rising Radioactive Spills Leave Fukushima Fishermen Floundering" [1]

"Dozens of crabs, three small sharks and scores of fish thump on the slippery deck of the fishing boat True Prosperity as captain Shohei Yaoita lands his latest haul, another catch headed not for the dinner table but for radioactive testing."



"Japan's government banned commercial fishing in this area, some 200 km (125 miles) northeast of Tokyo, after a devastating 2011 tsunami and the reactor meltdowns and explosions that followed at the nearby Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.

The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, has battled since then to keep radioactive water used to cool the crippled reactor from leaking into the ground and the sea."

Antoni Slodkowski reports for Reuters June 3, 2013. [2]

Fish & Fisheries [3]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [4]
Water & Oceans [5]
International [6]
Public [7]
Source: Reuters [2], 06/03/2013
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/rising-radioactive-spills-leave-fukushima-fishermen-floundering [2] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/68817 [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/fisheries [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/nuclear-power/radiation [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water [6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international [7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81