Small amount of radioactive material, blowing from Japan’s
damaged nuclear power plants, is expected to reach California on
Friday but experts have said the radiation would be “within safe
limits” and poses no major risk, according to a media report.
Radioactive isotopes are being blown toward North America “high
in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean” and will reach
California as soon as Friday, a report in the Los Angeles Times
said. “The material should begin showing up on the (U.S.) West
Coast as early as Friday, though it could take up to an
additional week for the 5,000-mile trip from Japan to Southern
California,” the report said. U.S. network of sensors, known as
the ‘Radnet’ operated by the Environmental Protection Agency and
comprising 100 radiation monitors across the country, are
monitoring the level of radiation that is flowing from Japan
towards the U.S. west coast. The EPA said it was monitoring the
situation closely. Its Radnet system had not yet detected
radioactivity and it has added addit