Satellite Image from 160 Kilometers North of the Fukushima Power Plant (IMAGE)

U.S. National Science Foundation

Satellite Image from 160 Kilometers North of the Fukushima Power Plant

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This is a satellite image from 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. Japan's two large ocean currents -- the Kuroshio and the Oyashio -- converge here.

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NASA

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