Fukushima Radiation May Reach West Coast Within Weeks, But Don't Worry (Yet)

Radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster may reach the U.S. West Coast within weeks, according to a report released Monday. But researchers said the low radiation levels would likely cause no environmental or human harm. The new findings were presented in Hawaii by Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, during a meeting of the American Geophysical Union's Ocean Sciences Section. The research followed a 2013 paper predicting that a plume of r...