Nuclear Pollution

In The Pacific

While Apollo 13 travelled on its way to the moon, news was released in Tokyo that parts of the South Pacific have been polluted by nuclear fallout from a US military satellite which failed to orbit in April, 1964.

The claim is made by the Japanese Oceanological Society which adds that although fish remain quite edible in the South Pacific, accumulated fall-out could affect the health. Appar ently the satellite in question— the 331st. ever launched— burned up in a fiery re-entry to the earth and spilled Plutonium 238 nuclear generator fuel into the ocean.