Fukushima Univ. unveils new device to detect strontium-90

Fukushima Univ. unveils new device to detect strontium-90

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Yoshitaka Takagai, an associate professor at Fukushima University, explains a device his team developed to measure strontium-90, a radioactive isotope produced by nuclear fission, in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on Nov. 27, 2014. The device is in use to analyze contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Radioactive water flows into sea from Fukushima plant

Radioactive water flows into sea from Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Supplied photo taken April 5, 2012, shows a water treatment pipe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in Fukushima Prefecture, from which water contaminated with radioactive strontium leaked. The pipe part wrapped in plastic (C top) is where the leakage occurred. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the same day that about 12 tons of contaminated water leaked and a large portion had probably flowed into the Pacific Ocean. (Photo courtesy of TEPCO)(Kyodo)

Fukushima Univ. unveils new device to detect strontium-90

Fukushima Univ. unveils new device to detect strontium-90

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Yoshitaka Takagai, an associate professor at Fukushima University, explains a device his team developed to measure strontium-90, a radioactive isotope produced by nuclear fission, in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on Nov. 27, 2014. The device is in use to analyze contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)

Contaminated water leaked into sea from Fukushima plant

Contaminated water leaked into sea from Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Supplied photo taken Dec. 4, 2011, shows water containing strontium and other radioactive substances that has leaked from a water processing facility at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said Dec. 6 that around 150 liters of the water had leaked from the facility and flowed into the Pacific Ocean. (Photo provided by Tokyo Electric Power Co.)(Kyodo)

Contaminated water leaked into sea from Fukushima plant

Contaminated water leaked into sea from Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Supplied photo taken Dec. 4, 2011, shows a concrete crack at the bottom of a water processing facility at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said Dec. 6 that around 150 liters of water containing strontium and other radioactive substances had leaked from the facility and flowed into the Pacific Ocean. (Photo provided by Tokyo Electric Power Co.)(Kyodo)