[The Washington Post] Elevated levels of cesium detected in fish off the Japanese coast suggest that radioactive particles from the Fukushima Daiichi disaster could contaminate sea life for decades, researchers report.
Population growth means added demand for water, while natural and human made disasters contaminate water supplies and damage water facilities.
The vehicles used to help clean up the disaster area were contaminated with radiation.
"Japan had no concrete plan for dealing with chemically contaminated disaster waste before the tsunami hit," he said.
Disturbances in teeth development has also been observed in children exposed to PCBs during the so-called Yusho disasters where PCB contaminated rice-bran oil was ingested [ 73, 74].
A 2006 report the International Atomic Energy Agency compiled after the Chernobyl disaster found that condemning contaminated food proved to be very expensive; tens of thousands of animals had to be slaughtered.
The sensor networks are deployed for data acquisition purposes in a wide range of locations, in resource-limited and hostile environments such as disaster areas, seismic zones, contaminated ecological sites and so on.
Iran is the only country operating a nuclear power plant that does not belong to the Convention on Nuclear Safety, negotiated after the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl which contaminated wide areas and forced about 160,000 Ukrainians from their homes.
Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are central to current malaria treatment strategies, 10 and the spread of malaria parasites with significant resistance to the artemisinin derivatives would be a public health disaster, especially if they contaminated Africa.
