Source: Washington's Blog
Date: 7/16/2012
In 10 Years, Peak Cesium Levels Off West Coast Could Be 10 Times Higher Than at Coast of Japan
We’ve extensively documented the fact that ocean currents bring
Japanese radiation to the West Coast of North America, and that – rather
than adequate ocean dilution -
there could be “pockets” and “streams” of highly-concentrated radiation.
Joke F Lübbecke of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA)
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
and 3 scientists from the GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences
poured tracer dye into coastal waters off of Fukushima, and monitored
its progress as it traveled to the West Coast of North America, to find
out what might really happen.
They have revealed their results in a
new paper published by journal
Environmental Research Letters.
The paper shows that the West Coast of North American could end up with
10 times more radioactive cesium 137 than the coastal waters off of Japan itself.
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