Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Where Will the Radiation Go?

"Ten days after an earthquake and tsunami crippled a nuclear plant inJapan, officials are detecting abnormal levels of radiation in what may seem like a scattershot assortment of foods: milk from Fukushima Prefecture, where the reactors sit; spinach from Ibaraki Prefecture to the south; canola from Gunma Prefecture to the west; and chrysanthemum greens from Chiba to the south. Shipments of the milk and spinach have been banned."
Original Article

     Experts are not sure where the radiation will be going. The radioactive materials can move very easily through out the world, based upon the weather patterns. 
"It’s natural that people worldwide will be monitoring for this — just in case it is far worse than we now expect,” said F. Ward Whicker, a professor emeritus at Colorado State University who developed a leading model for following radiation through the food chain.

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