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(14,881 posts)Those internet hysterians in the Japanese government have pretty much answered it.
Title: Study: Radioactive water to reach Hawaii in 2 years
Source: AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
Author: TAKASHI SUGIMOTO
Date: April 03, 2012
Water contaminated by radioactivity that entered the sea from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant will reach the Hawaiian Islands in March 2014, according to a computer simulation by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. [...]
The researchers said 18,000 trillion becquerels of radioactive iodine and cesium have leaked from the plant into the sea.
The contaminated water will be carried by ocean currents, and the maximum radioactivity level in cesium-137 will be about 0.04 becquerel per liter when it nears the Hawaiian Islands, they said.
http://enenews.com/japan-govt-radioactive-fukushima-water-to-hit-hawaii-within-2-years-ocean-may-be-50-of-epas-maximum-contaminant-level-photo