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Post by Ex_Nuke_Troop on Feb 25, 2014 16:45:39 GMT
Caroline Modarressy Tehrani, Host: Rising radiation levels and leaks at the plant have caused international alarm […] Now there are new fears in the U.S. that an ocean current called the North Pacific Gyre is bringing contaminated Japanese water to the West Coast. Tehrani: Does the disaster have the potential to disrupt the west coast ecosystem entirely or at least in part? Tim Mousseau, Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at University of South Carolina: At this point it’s a huge unknown. [...] There’s suggestions that there may be pockets of high contamination that get carried relatively intact across the ocean, so these have the potential to lead to some contamination. We just don’t know. […] Given the vast amounts of material that was released I think there will be measurable amounts of the radioactive cesium hitting the West Coast, blanketing the West Coast for some time to come, but whether or not that represents a harmful dose remains to be seen. There’s been very little research done on the long term impacts of these kind of contaminants. [...] videos.huffingtonpost.com/record-radiation-readings-near-fukushima-517921204
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