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April 2012 – Volume 8, Number 2 Minerals, Microbes, and Remediation GUEST EDITORS • Anhuai Lu and Hailiang Dong PRINCIPAL EDITORS • James I. Drever University of Wyoming • Georges Calas Université Pierre et Marie Curie • John W. Valley University of Wisconsin Table of contents Advertisers in this issue 3.105 Impact Factor

In press: April 2, 2012

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Volume 8, Number 3 • FUKUSHIMA: ONE YEAR LATER
GUEST EDITORS : Takashi Murakami (University of Tokyo) and Rodney C. Ewing (University of Michigan)

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, killing more than 20,000 persons, displacing tens of thousands, and causing havoc in the infrastructure and economy of the country. In the aftermath of this tragedy, the cooling systems of three of the operating reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station failed and meltdown of the reactor cores occurred. Over the following days, a series of hydrogen gas explosions took place. Radionuclides (mainly ¹³¹I and ¹³⁷Cs) were released to the atmosphere and transported over many tens of kilometers from the site, contaminating soil and water. Seawater was used to cool the damaged reactor cores, and water contaminated with radioactivity was released to the ocean. Considerable amounts of used fuel were stored in nearby pools, and with the loss of water, the pools contributed to the release of radioactivity. One year after the tragedy at Fukushima, this issue of Elements provides a summary of what is known about the environmental impact of this nuclear accident.

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