Fukushima Contamination in U.S. Waters Refuted by NRC
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Claims that radiation from a wrecked Japanese nuclear plant is contaminating U.S. waters are “simply not correct,” Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Allison Macfarlane said on the disaster’s third anniversary.
Radioactive water hasn’t reached the coast and any Pacific Ocean samples with residue from the 2011 accident have levels at least 100 times lower than U.S. drinking-water standards, Macfarlane said today at a commission conference near NRC headquarters in the Washington suburb of Rockville, Maryland.