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Will Fukushima Radiation Poison California?
Posted by Tom Hartsfield, March 15, 2014, RealClearScience.com
This week marked the three-year anniversary of the massive Tohoku earthquake off the Japanese coast. This 9.0 Richter scale tectonic event and the 100-foot tsunami that it triggered killed six times more people than the 9/11 attacks. It also resulted in the meltdown of three reactor cores at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant.
Radioactive isotopes released during the meltdown have drifted along the Pacific currents and are now approaching the US Pacific Coast. Should Californians worry about this? Not at all. Fukushima radiation levels in seawater will be so low that you could drink gallons of ocean water every day and be at no health risk- except dehydration and vomiting.
Here’s why.
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Posted by Tom Hartsfield, March 15, 2014, RealClearScience.com
This week marked the three-year anniversary of the massive Tohoku earthquake off the Japanese coast. This 9.0 Richter scale tectonic event and the 100-foot tsunami that it triggered killed six times more people than the 9/11 attacks. It also resulted in the meltdown of three reactor cores at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant.
Radioactive isotopes released during the meltdown have drifted along the Pacific currents and are now approaching the US Pacific Coast. Should Californians worry about this? Not at all. Fukushima radiation levels in seawater will be so low that you could drink gallons of ocean water every day and be at no health risk- except dehydration and vomiting.
Here’s why.
(Continued here.)
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