Fukushima radioactive waters to hit US any day now

[muriel_volestrangler]

31. And here's what Woods Hole has to say:

Within months of the accident, Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), assembled a research cruise and science party of 17 people from eight institutions to sample the waters surrounding the nuclear plant. The scientists found elevated levels of the nuclear by-product cesium but they were below the threshold of concern for direct human exposure. The levels of cesium had diminished quickly off shore because cesium is soluble in seawater and was therefore diluted by the Pacific ocean currents. They also measured cesium and other radionuclides in plankton and fish and, in subsequent cruises, collected sediments from the seafloor near the plant. To this date, important fisheries off Fukushima remain closed due to levels of cesium that are above Japanese limits for seafood.

http://www.whoi.edu/main/topic/fukushima-radiation

So the levels are below concern for humans in the waters surrounding the plant. That's before they're further diluted by passage across the Pacific.