Fukushima nuclear plant disaster will reach the shores of the US
Sept. 23, 2013
The radioactive ocean plume from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster will reach the shores of the US within three years from the date of the incident but are likely to be harmless according to new paper in the journal Deep-Sea Research 1.
While atmospheric radiation was detected on the US west coast within days of the incident, the radioactive particles in the ocean plume take considerably longer to travel the same distance.
In the paper, researchers from the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC), the Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC) and others used a range of ocean simulations to track the path of the Fukushima radioactive plume.
