A 2011 quake and tsunami sent Fukushima Daiichi plant's reactors to meltdown
•Radiation was leaked into the air, soil and ocean from the plant in eastern Japan
•Water tests revealed cesium-137 near St Lawrence Island in the Bering Strait
•But the levels need to be more than 3,000-times higher to pose a safety concern
Radioactive contamination from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant hit by a tsunami in 2011 has drifted as far north as waters off a remote Alaskan island.
Scientists said on Wednesday that analysis of seawater collected last year near St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Strait revealed a slight elevation in levels of radioactive cesium-137 attributable to the Fukushima disaster.
'This is the northern edge of the plume,' said Gay Sheffield, a Sea Grant marine advisory agent based in the Bering Sea town of Nome, Alaska
The newly detected Fukushima radiation was minute. The level of cesium-137, a byproduct of nuclear fission, in seawater was just four-tenths as high as traces of the isotope naturally found in the Pacific Ocean.
Those levels are far too low to pose a health concern, an important point for people living on the Bering Sea coast who survive on food caught in the ocean, Sheffield said.
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THE SAME PEOPLE WHO SAID NO GUNS BECAUSE OF POLICE NOW WANT TO DEFUND THE POLICE!!!!
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They don't really care whether the truth gets out, because the public no longer knows what's meant by "the truth."
Well, I mean, no one can tell the difference anymore between what's real and what's fake.
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