New technology improving water quality monitoring
…pharmaceuticals and overall risks to health. The results were published in national industry guidance document. A modified Chemcatcher was developed during the team’s collaboration with the Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan and 3M Tokyo to monitor radio-caesium in waters near the Fukushima reactor. As the sampler had a high affinity for this element, it removes the need to collect large volumes of potentially radioactive water. Chemcatcher is n…