It’s been over a year since natural disaster ravaged a nuclear plant
in Fukushima and interrupted the lives of millions of Japanese.
Scientists now fear though that contaminated water is on course to
America, and it could be more toxic than thought.
Researchers have released the findings of an intense study into the
aftermath of last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster and warn that the
United States isn’t exactly spared just yet. In fact, scientists now
fear that incredibly contaminated ocean waters could be reaching the
West Coast of the US in a matter of only five years, and the toxicity of
those waves could eventually be worse than what was seen in Japan.
A
team of scientists led by Joke F Lübbecke of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental
Laboratory have published the findings of an experiment recently
conducted to measure the impact of last year’s nuclear disaster and the
results are eye-opening to say the least. By simulating the spreading of
contaminated ocean waters and seeing how currents could carry them
across the Pacific from Japan to the US, scientists believe that the
worst might be still on the way.
“Within one year it will have
spread over the entire western half of the North Pacific and in five
years we predict it will reach the US West Coast.” Claus Böning, co-author of the study, tells the website Environmentalresearchweb.
Böning adds that “The levels of radiation that hit the US coast will be small relative to the levels released by Fukushima,” yet fails to exactly stand by that statement in the fullest. “But we cannot estimate accurately what those levels will be because we do not know for certain what was released by Fukushima,” the doctor adds.
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