date:May 31, 2012
ve cesium from swimming in contaminated waters and feeding on contaminated prey such as krill and squid, the scientists said. As the predators made the journey east, they shed some of the radiation through metabolism and as they grew larger. Even so, they weren't able to completely flush out all the contamination from their system.
That's a big ocean. To swim across it and still retain these radionuclides is pretty amazing, Mr Fisher said.
Pacific bluefin tuna are prized in Japan where a thin