AptaMer
01-28-2017, 10:15 AM
It's been five years since the Fukushima power plant got destroyed by the 2011 tsunami, and started leaking radiactive contamination into the ocean on the east coast of Japan.
I just stumbled across this press relaese by Yamamoto Corporation, the world's biggest manufacturer of wetsuit materials. It seems in response to the Fukushima disaster, they actually invented a special neoprene material that can reduce retention of radioactive contamination for people who have to swim in contaminated water
http://www.yamamoto-bio.com/yamamoto_e/latest/131017_shield.html
Probably this will never be relevant to most people. The only application I can think of would be for making neoprene tails for mers in Japan who for some reason might be swimming on the east coast, but it's interesting to know it's available.
I just stumbled across this press relaese by Yamamoto Corporation, the world's biggest manufacturer of wetsuit materials. It seems in response to the Fukushima disaster, they actually invented a special neoprene material that can reduce retention of radioactive contamination for people who have to swim in contaminated water
http://www.yamamoto-bio.com/yamamoto_e/latest/131017_shield.html
Probably this will never be relevant to most people. The only application I can think of would be for making neoprene tails for mers in Japan who for some reason might be swimming on the east coast, but it's interesting to know it's available.