4/3/2012 Fukushima Radiation Moving Across Pacific Ocean

Source: Huffington Post
Date: 04/ 3/2012 1:06 pm
by:  By Jesse Emspak, LiveScience Contributor:

An aerial view of damage to Sukuiso, Japan, a week after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated the area in March, 2011. 

Radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear disaster has been found in tiny sea creatures and ocean water some 186 miles (300 kilometers) off the coast of Japan, revealing the extent of the release and the direction pollutants might take in a future environmental disaster.

In some places, the researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) discovered cesium radiation hundreds to thousands of times higher than would be expected naturally, with ocean eddies and larger currents both guiding the "radioactive debris" and concentrating it.
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3/4/2012 San Onofre Power Plant To Get A Visit From Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman

Source: Huffington Post
Date: 04/ 4/12 03:49 PM ET
By: MICHAEL R. BLOOD

 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko (Associated Press) 

LOS ANGELES — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Wednesday that its chairman will visit the ailing San Onofre nuclear power plant on the California coast, where twin reactors have been sidelined because of excessive wear in tubing that carries radioactive water.
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