California 'too far' for Japan radiation to reach, officials say
Despite the growing nuclear crisis in Japan, health officials in
California said they were doubtful that harmful radiation would
flow 5,000 miles to the West Coast. Jordan Scott, a spokesman
for the California Emergency Management Agency, said nuclear
experts had reassured officials in his office that “there is no
danger at this time.” Scott said they also have been told that,
should a meltdown occur at one of Japan’s quake-damaged nuclear
reactors, “it is highly unlikely that we would see any effects
of it here.” “Things would have to get kind of 'end of days' for
us to see even a little bit of it here. We’re talking very
extreme,” Scott said. “We’re just too far for anything to really
reach us. A majority of the materials that would come out of
there in a meltdown would dissipate” within miles, he said.
“That being said," Scott said, "we are doing our due diligence
in monitoring the situation and making sure we have the most
updated informatio