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| Radioactive Particles From Fukushima Found in California Wines
Perhaps you thought Fukushima just quietly went away... via NY Times: Ever since a huge earthquake off the coast of Japan sent a tsunami crashing into a nuclear plant in Fukushima, setting off one of the world's worst nuclear crises, scientists have been uncovering the radioactive legacy of the 2011 disaster. The government warned about contaminated seafood around Japan, and toxic water, sludge and rubble. More frighteningly, radioactive wild boars marauded Japanese towns and attacked people. Now a group of French nuclear physicists say they have stumbled on Fukushima's signature in Northern California wine. In a new study, the researchers report testing 18 bottles of California rosé and cabernet sauvignon from 2009 onward and finding increased levels of radioactive particles in the wine produced after the Fukushima disaster. In the case of the cabernet, the levels of the radioactive materials doubled. "We can measure some radioactive level that is much higher than the usual level,"