Fukushima nuclear waste detected off U.S. West Coast, from California to Canada — “There is definitely offshore Fukushima cesium now” — Test results will not be revealed to public for several weeks (VIDEO)
ENENews.com
October 17th, 2014
Statesman Journal, Oct. 17, 2014 at 1:31p ET (excerpts):
Headline: Fukushima radiation nearing West Coast
Massive amounts of contaminated water were released from Fukushima… Radioactive water has continued to leak and be released from the complex
No state or federal agency is testing Pacific waters for radiation
A sample taken Aug. 2 about [750 miles] west of Vancouver, B.C. tested positive for Cesium 134, the Fukushima “fingerprint” [and] Cesium 137
Further results… show offshore Fukushima radiation down the coast into California… including some samples that are closer to shore
The captain of a research vessel… offered to collect offshore samples down the entire coast
About 40 offshore test results… will be made public next month, said Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at Woods Hole… at a conference Nov. 13
Ken Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: “I’m not concerned… There is definitely offshore Fukushima cesium now… It’s not on the beaches, but it’s offshore.”
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