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Nuclear Tuna Is Hot News, But Not Because It's Going To Make You Sick

A Tokyo sushi restaurant displays blocks of fat meat tuna cut out from a 269kg bluefin tuna. Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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The Salt

Nuclear Tuna Is Hot News, But Not Because It's Going To Make You Sick

May 29, 2012 • The amount of radiation found in Pacific bluefin tuna spawned near Fukushima does not threaten our health, despite today's suggestive headlines. What a new study shows is that scientists can rely on tiny amounts of radiation to track animals across great distances.

Nuclear Tuna Is Hot News, But Not Because It's Going To Make You Sick

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Japan Halts Some Beef Shipments Over Radioactive Feed

A farmer feeds her cattle at a farm in Futamata, Fukushima prefecture, about 28 miles west from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, on March 20, 2011. AFP/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Japan Halts Some Beef Shipments Over Radioactive Feed

July 19, 2011 • The Japanese government shut down all beef shipments coming out of Fukushima prefecture today, home to the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. This comes more than a week after tests on meat from the region revealed high levels of radioactive cesium.