Radiation and the Pacific Jet Stream

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Posted on March 15, 2011 by James Ridgeway| Leave a comment

Will radiation released from Japan’s damaged nuclear plants affect people living in the United States, in Hawaii or on the West Coast? I asked that question of Dr. Ivan Oelrich, a retired nuclear physicist who worked during the last decade with the Federation of American Scientists, toured Japanese reactor sites last August. In an interview this morning he said that detectable radiation around the world may rise, but not “significantly.” When the North Koreans set off a nuclear device, for example, radiation showed up at the monitoring station at Yellowknife, Canada–the spot where radiation levels from Japan probably will be first detected on the mainland–but the amounts remained small.