Japanese Atomic Plume Doesn’t Pose Health Threat to U.S. Coast
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Radiation wafting toward the U.S. from stricken nuclear reactors in Japan presents less of a danger than 1950s-era atomic weapons testing or the 1986 Chernobyl accident, weather experts and government officials said yesterday.
The radiation plume from the reactors is moving northeast over the Pacific, the Austrian Meteorological and Geophysics Center reported on its website. Weather patterns over the ocean may bring it to the U.S. today, Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground Inc. in Ann Arbor, Michigan, said in a telephone interview.