Japan Tsunami Debris Reaches Alaska Headed For West Coast Beaches

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"It's safe to say that tsunami debris is here," said Merrick Burden, director of the Juneau-based Marine Conservation Alliance Foundation. Since January, the MCA has been tracking where and what kinds of debris is coming ashore, and whether it is radioactive (none so far) at Kodiak, Yakutat, Sitka and Craig, where wreckage was expected to hit first. "What we're finding are wind- driven objects like buoys, Styrofoam and large containers, some of which contain materials that are potentially to

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Japan Tsunami Debris Reaches Alaska Headed For West Coast Beaches
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"It's safe to say that tsunami debris is here," said Merrick Burden, director of the Juneau-based Marine Conservation Alliance Foundation. Since January, the MCA has been tracking where and what kinds of debris is coming ashore, and whether it is radioactive (none so far) at Kodiak, Yakutat, Sitka and Craig, where wreckage was expected to hit first. "What we're finding are wind- driven objects like buoys, Styrofoam and large containers, some of which contain materials that are potentially to

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