I wish I could answer it, but the literature is incomplete and, for some odd reason, the funding's not there on both sides of the Pacific. Japan today censors news about Fukushima and the amount of radiation TEPCO continues to spill into the planet's ecosphere is unknown.
Ocean water off La Jolla coast being monitored (and not) for Fukushima radiation
By Pat Sherman
La Jolla Light, Feb. 4, 2014
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In 2011 Thiemens and a crew of UCSD atmospheric chemists reported the first quantitative measurement of the amount of radiation leaked from the damaged nuclear reactor in Fukushima, following the devastating earthquake and tsunami there.
Their estimate was based on radioactive sulfur that wafted across the Pacific Ocean after operators of the damaged reactor had to cool overheated fuel with seawater — causing a chemical reaction between byproducts of nuclear fission and chlorine ions in the saltwater.
Thiemens has, for the past several years, unsuccessfully sought to obtain grant funding to follow-up his research, first reported on Aug. 15 2011 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
[font color="red"]However, he said neither the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, California Air Resources Board or National Academy of Sciences (of which he is a member) were interested in funding additional research to measure the Fukushima fallout[/font color].
“It’s probably one of these things that just fell through the cracks,” Thiemens said. “It doesn’t quite fall under classical (research criteria).”
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http://www.lajollalight.com/2014/02/04/ocean-water-off-la-jolla-coast-being-monitored-for-fukushima-radiation/
Better to know what might be a problem than be ignorant of what is a problem. As for those who want to keep everybody in the dark, they are most undemocratic, among other things.
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