Radioactive Marine Debris Not Expected from Japan Tsunami

A group of NOAA scientists returned from a month long voyage around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands this week. One of their goals was to collect as much ocean trash as possible and search for signs of debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan and test for radiation. HPR reports on what they found.

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Radioactive Marine Debris Not Expected from Japan Tsunami

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