How Quickly Did Fukushima Radiation Reach North America, and When Will it Peak? [View all]

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http://www.techtimes.com/articles/24309/20150102/how-quickly-did-fukushima-radiation-reach-north-america-and-when-will-it-peak.htm

Scientists have released the results of a study on just how long it took the radioactive elements released from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean by the 2001 earthquake and tsunami to reach the west coast of North America.

Cesium 137 and cesium 134 that spilled into the waters of the Pacific ocean from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant took about 2.1 years to show up in measurable amounts on the shores of North American, Canadian researchers report in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences.

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By June 2013 the radiation had reached Canada's continental shelf, the researchers say.

However, the amount of radiation detected was small, they say -- below 1 Becquerels per cubic meter. (A Becquerel is the number of radioactive decades event per second for each 260 gallons of water.)

That level is at least 1,000 lower than what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considered acceptable in drinking water.

It is also lower than the levels present in the Pacific Ocean in the 1980s due to fallout from testing of nuclear weapons, the researchers point out.

Don't be deceived by doomers who pretend to know something about science. And don't listen to dumbass conspiracies that governments are hiding the effects of the Fukushima disaster. Real scientists are doing real science, and publishing their results.

And those results tell us that while The effects from Fukushima should not be minimized, they should also not be wildly exaggerated. Fukushima was bad enough without having to make shit up to make it seem worse.

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