New Museum Program Focuses on Impacts of Fukushima on the Ocean

<p>Four years after the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident, Japan is still recovering and rebuilding from the disaster. In March 2011 one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded shook Japan, creating a devastating tsunami and damaging the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. The accident resulted in the largest unintentional release of radioactivity into the ocean in history.</p>
<p>On the fourth anniversary of the disaster, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Long Beach, CA-based Aquarium of the Pacific will debut a new program about ocean radioactivity motivated by the Fukushima nuclear accident. The program will be projected daily in the Aquarium&rsquo;s Ocean Science Center on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&rsquo;s (NOAA) Science on a Sphere&reg; and will be made available to more than 100 institutions around the world through NOAA&rsquo;s SOS Network with a capacity to reach over 50 million combined visitors.</p>