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Frenchman in Tokyo with reference to this article:
http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffmcmahon/2011/04/25/french-plan-to-clean-fukushimas-radioactive-water-detailed-including-risks/French System For Cleaning Fukushima Water Blamed For Leukemia, Polluted Beaches In Europe
Apr. 25 2011
By JEFF MCMAHON
A Greenpace diver sampling the cleaned water from the Areva nuclear processing plant outflow in the English Channel.
A diver sampling the cleaned water from the Areva nuclear processing plant outflow in the English Channel. Photo courtesy of Greenpeace / Gavin Newman
The process a French firm will use to clean Fukushima’s radioactive water has been blamed for a leukemia cluster in France and for polluted beaches and irradiated waters from the English Channel to the Arctic Sea.
Areva SA has promised to remove up to 99.99 percent of the radioactive contaminants in 67,500 tons of water flooding the crippled Fukushima-Dai-ichi nuclear plant. It will use a co-precipitation method employed at its La Hague nuclear fuel reprocessing facility in Normandy. more at link