Fukushima radiation headed across Pacific Ocean ~ Jesse Emspak
Now 186 miles off Japanese coast, study reveals extent of
release, direction of pollutants! Radioactive material from the
Fukushima nuclear disaster has been found in tiny sea creatures
and ocean water some 186 miles (300 kilometers) off the coast of
Japan, revealing the extent of the release and the direction
pollutants might take in a future environmental disaster. In
some places, the researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution (WHOI) discovered cesium radiation hundreds to
thousands of times higher than would be expected naturally, with
ocean eddies and larger currents both guiding the “ radioactive
debris ” and concentrating it. An aerial view of damage to
Sukuiso, Japan, a week after the earthquake and subsequent
tsunami devastated the area in March, 2011. With these results,
detailed Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, the team estimates it will take at least a
year or two for the radioactive mate