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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Fukushima Radiation: Japan Irradiates the West Coast of North America

Fukushima Radiation: Japan Irradiates the West Coast of North America

Fukushima Japan Fukushima Radiation: Japan Irradiates the West Coast of North America
Painting by Jonathan Raddatz
Radiation from Japan’s nuclear accident has turned up in seaweed on the coasts of California, Washington and other parts of the West Coast of North America.
The ocean is so big … how could this be happening? Why didn’t the gigantic Pacific Ocean better dilute Fukushima radiation?
A 1955 U.S. government report concluded that the ocean may not adequately dilute radiation from nuclear accidents.
MIT says that seawater which is itself radioactive may begin hitting the West Coast within 5 years.

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