Traces of Fukushima Radiation Found in California Wines

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By Julie Fidler

A group of scientists have detected traces of radioactive material from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in bottles of wine made in California at levels higher than before the power plant exploded and melted down.

Years after the disaster, a group of French nuclear physicists set out to determine whether the nuclear isotope cesium-137 was more present in wines produced after the Fukushima meltdown than before the disaster. To find out, they tested bottles of rosé and Cabernet sauvignon that were made from 2009 to 2012.

The result: Some wines made after 2011 contained twice as much cesium-137.

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Source: naturalsociety.com

    

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