Pacific Ocean radiation back near normal after Fukushima: study

[sue4e3]

Radiation levels across the Pacific Ocean are rapidly returning to normal five years after a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant spewed gases and liquids into the sea, a study showed Monday.

Japan shut down dozens of reactors after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake-generated tsunami on March 11, 2011 triggered one of the largest ever dumps of nuclear material into the world's oceans.
In the days following the quake and explosions at Fukushima, seawater meant to cool the nuclear reactors instead carried radioactive elements back into the Pacific, with currents dispersing it widely.
Five years on a review by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, which brings together ocean experts from across the world, said radioactive material had been carried as far as the United States.


Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-07-pacific-ocean-fukushima.html#jCp

[FBaggins]

1. The overall ocean never left near normal levels...

... but one can't blame the study for the title of someone's summary of it.

The actual report is well worth the read.

[sue4e3]

2. That website post decent studies but thier titles for the articles on the studies suck

[progressoid]

3. Well I heard that we would be seeing radioactive fish off the coast of California.

I can't believe the internet told me a falsehood!!

[FBaggins]

4. There have been radioactive fish off the coast

Of course... all fish have always been radioactive.

The handful that have been discovered with radioactive elements identifiably from Fukushima have shown only trace amount (dwarfed by the natural radioactive elements they contain)... but some would have you believe that "man-made" (sic) radiation is somehow different.