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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14590 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/beach-e1393293321141.jpg\" alt=\"The California coast is -- so far -- free of Cesium-134, the radioactive isotope traveling across the ocean from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. (Damian Gadal/Flickr) http://www.flickr.com/photos/23024164@N06/11975479114/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California coast is — so far — free of Cesium-134, the radioactive isotope traveling across the Pacific from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/23024164@N06/11975479114/\">Damian Gadal/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Radiation in the ocean from the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in 2011 in Japan has yet to reach the California coast, scientists said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers have detected miniscule amounts of the radioactive isotope \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/radiation/radionuclides/cesium.html\">cesium-134\u003c/a> in the ocean off Vancouver, Canada, as John Norton Smith, a senior research scientist at Canada’s Bedford Institute of Oceanography, said at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Hawaii. It’s at levels lower than naturally occurring radiation, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Factsheets/English/polonium210.html\">polonium-210\u003c/a>, which is already in the ocean, he said.\u003cdel datetime=\"2014-02-24T17:33\">\u003c/del>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists are testing samples and using models to try to zero in on when it will reach the California coast — they say they expect it this spring — and how much there will be when it does, said Ken Buesseler, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers have also detected radioactive cesium-137 in the ocean. This is not a surprise, said Buesseler. It’s been around since the nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s and 1960s. With a half-life of 30 years, it’s going away, but still around in trace amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘It’s clearly not an environmental or human health radiological threat.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of the outstanding questions now is, how much cesium-134 — the stuff from Fukushima — will eventually make it to our coast?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data collected by scientists at the Bedford Institute fits into two different models — one predicting that it could reach levels comparable to the levels of cesium-137 when weapons testing was still going on, the other that it would be closer to cesium-137 levels in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really a little hard to predict at this moment which model is correct, said Smith. Either outcome, he emphasizes, is not dangerous to humans because the levels are so low.\u003cins cite=\"mailto:LENOVO%20USER\" datetime=\"2014-02-24T17:18\">\u003c/ins>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clearly not an environmental or human health radiological threat,” he said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”06629c71697c48c363c830394a2736cc”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once it does start arriving researchers will know, said Buesseler. He’s organizing a \u003ca href=\"http://ourradioactiveocean.org/\">citizen science project\u003c/a>, in which volunteers all over the West Coast collect ocean water samples to test for radioactivity. Collection points in California include Point Reyes, Pacifica and Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not here yet,” Buesseler said. “When we’re talking about the arrival of the plume — and, you know, I’m the first person to say radioactivity can be quite dangerous, we should be concerned — but maybe not at the levels we’re going to expect coming across from Japan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another radiation-detecting project underway in California is Kelp Watch 2014, a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/01/15/new-fukushima-radiation-study-will-focus-on-west-coast-kelp-forests/\">program to monitor kelp forests\u003c/a> on the coast for cesium-134.\u003cins cite=\"mailto:LENOVO%20USER\" datetime=\"2014-02-24T17:19\">\u003c/ins>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/09/a-dose-of-straight-talk-on-fukushima-radiation-rumors/rs6220_175721355-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-123104\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-123104\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS6220_175721355-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese government officials and nuclear experts inspect work at the badly damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. (AFP-Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese government officials and nuclear experts inspect work at the badly damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. (AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The other morning on KQED's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/forum/\" target=\"_blank\">Forum\u003c/a>\" program, we invited listeners to call and write with ideas about \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/07/listeners-weigh-in-what-stories-should-kqed-cover-in-2014/\" target=\"_blank\">what we ought to be covering\u003c/a> in the coming year. We got lots of ideas for coverage on health, technology, arts and culture, politics and the economics of living in this region. We also heard requests for coverage on science and environmental subjects, including this one from a caller named David:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I would love to see some coverage of the radiation spread from Fukushima Daiichi. I feel woefully uninformed, and I've heard reports that the radiation releases could affect the whole West Coast, which seems extreme except I've been hearing things. Hearing what its impact is, both short term and long term, would be great.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In fact, KQED has been getting questions for months about the West Coast impact from the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster that followed \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/03/japans-earthquake-and-tsunami-how-they-happened.html\" target=\"_blank\">Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami\u003c/a>. The questions often appear to be prompted by claims made in blog posts like this: \u003ca href=\"http://www.activistpost.com/2013/10/28-signs-that-west-coast-is-being.html\" target=\"_blank\">28 Signs That the West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried by Radiation from Fukushima\u003c/a> -- posts that appear to be long on hyperbole, alarmism and cherry-picked facts and short on data and reasoning. In response, one of our science editors came up with a letter (see the end of this post) that points to what we believe to give well informed and well researched sources of information on the local impact of Fukushima radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">It’s pretty clear there’s nothing to the almost daily claims that the West Coast is being blasted, flooded, roasted and fried by Fukushima radiation.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The questions are still coming, stirred partly by concern over the impact of one of the world's most serious nuclear disasters and partly by the continuing stream of Internet \"evidence\" suggesting radiation from Fukushima is poisoning us and wreaking havoc on the environment. Just this week, for instance, there's this: Fishermen in Mexico discovered \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25663557\" target=\"_blank\">conjoined gray whale calves\u003c/a> off the Baja coast. That much is true, and from what early stories say, it could be the first time conjoined gray whales have ever been seen. But you don't have to go far to find reports like this, on a site called The Voice of Russia: \u003ca href=\"http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_01_09/Two-headed-whale-found-in-Mexico-is-Fukushima-radiation-to-be-blamed-8583/\" target=\"_blank\">Two-headed whale found in Mexico. Is Fukushima radiation responsible?\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huh? Who said anything about a two-headed whale? Or Fukushima? The question in the headline is sensational and leading, and the answer the piece gives is of the \"no one knows — but it \u003cem>could\u003c/em> be!\" variety. (For a more sober take, check Slate: \u003ca href=\"http://bcove.me/3rf9c6jt\" target=\"-blank\">No, That Conjoined Whale Calf Was Not Caused by Fukushima\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Video From Surfer's Beach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest recent Net-enabled Fukushima shocker originated in our own backyard. It came by way of a YouTube video shot near Half Moon Bay and posted just before Christmas. From there it has gone viral. (Here's one version, possibly the original judging from the traffic it's gotten, though it misidentifies the location as Pacifica State Beach: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcQLxT49ZP0\" target=\"_blank\">Fukushima Radiation Hits San Francisco\u003c/a>?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What exactly does the 7½-minute video show?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It features a man visiting the beach with a Geiger counter, a device that detects the presence of radioactive material (here's \u003ca href=\"http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~nick/geiger/\" target=\"_blank\">one simple description\u003c/a> of a counter and what it measures). Typically, a Geiger counter emits a clicking sound when it counts a radioactive particle and gives a readout of \"counts per minute\" (CPM), the rate of radioactive particles it's detecting. The higher the CPM, the higher the radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Surfer's Beach video begins in a parking lot, and the Geiger counter shows what's considered to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/perspective.html\" target=\"_blank\">a normal background level of radiation\u003c/a>, about 30 CPM. But when the man holding the counter walks down to the sand, the level jumps and tops out at 156. The man, identified \u003ca href=\"http://www.rense.com/general96/radiationoncabch.html\" target=\"_blank\">elsewhere\u003c/a> as \"Dave,\" says: \"And so the width of the sand pretty much the length of this particular beach it looks like is contaminated at least three times over (background radiation levels).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There's Radiation — But Not From Fukushima\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video has prompted public health officials to look at what's going on at Surfer's Beach. As several local media outlets have reported, both county and state health officials are saying the radiation probably has a natural, local origin. Here's David Perlman \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Coast-getting-little-radiation-from-Fukushima-5125645.php\" target=\"_blank\">in the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, who wrote that tests of sand from the beach \"show that the radiation has come from natural sources — most probably from ancient rocks eroded in the bluffs above.\" The story continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"There is no public health risk at California beaches due to radioactivity related to events at Fukushima,\" the California Department of Public Health said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Recent tests by the San Mateo County Public Health Department show that elevated levels of radiation at Half Moon Bay are due to naturally occurring materials and not radioactivity associated with the Fukushima incident,\" it said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Mark Noack of the Half Moon Bay Review \u003ca href=\"http://www.hmbreview.com/news/experts-say-beach-radiation-unrelated-to-fukushima/article_d3bb5b14-77ea-11e3-a37b-001a4bcf887a.html\" target=\"_blank\">has also been reporting\u003c/a> on the video and on what's causing the radiation readings on Surfer's Beach. One of the people he's talked to is Steve Weiss, a Geiger counter designer who lives near the beach:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On Monday, Weiss carried a Geiger counter in each hand for a second survey of Surfer's Beach. As he descended to the waterline, the readings on his gadgets climbed. He tested various spots: the side of the bluffs and the white sand closest to the waterline, both registering levels that were high but not suspiciously so as far as he was concerned. But when he placed the sensors down near a line of black silt along the back of the beach, the meters on both his gadgets spiked. The counters registered about 415 counts per minute. A cpm of 30 is considered the baseline for radioactivity typically found in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not normal. I've never seen 400 cpm when I just wave my Geiger around.” he said. “There has to be something radioactive for it to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss is no amateur; for 40 years he has made a living designing Geiger counters, most recently for International Medcom Inc. After he verified the hots pot, he took a sample of the dark sediment and sent it to his company's main offices in Sebastopol for analysis.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The company's CEO, Dan Sythe, analyzed the samples. He reported on his own blog, \u003ca href=\"http://geigercounter.com/california-beach-radiation-fukushima/\" target=\"_blank\">Geiger Counter Bulletin,\u003c/a> that the radiation in the sand emanated from radium and thorium — \"naturally occurring radioactive materials\" — not from the cesium isotope that would show it to have come from Fukushima. Sythe characterized the radiation level as \"elevated, but roughly equivalent to some granite counter top material from Brazil.\" And he said the actual source of the Surfer's Beach material still merits investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">For the 10,000th time: Always be skeptical and questioning of what you read on the Net.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So, what's the takeaway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concern over the \u003cem>long-term\u003c/em> impact of Fukushima is understandable. The disaster is akin to an ongoing experiment that will be teaching us about radiation's impacts for many years to come. At the same time, it's pretty clear there's nothing to the almost daily claims that the West Coast is being blasted, flooded, roasted or fried by Fukushima radiation. For the 10,000th time: Always be skeptical and questioning of what you read on the Net, and look for context and confirmation for any and all claims. We don't exempt our own offerings from that advice either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>* * *\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Here's the letter we've sent to listeners and readers who have asked for information about the impact of Fukushima radiation on the West Coast:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Thank you for being a KQED listener and for your email regarding Internet buzz about ocean contamination from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information on the Internet that claims that the tsunami debris near the West Coast is radioactive, or that huge plumes of nuclear water are heading for the West Coast, or that fish here are carrying dangerously high levels of radiation, is false. These claims are unsubstantiated and not supported by scientists who have studied the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d recommend reading this information — \u003ca href=\"http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=83397&tid=3622&cid=94989\" target=\"_blank\">Fukushima Radiation \u003c/a>— from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, one of the world’s leading marine science organizations. The writer, Ken Buesseler, organized the first comprehensive study of the spread of radionuclides from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. He gained expertise on the topic when he studied the spread of radionuclides from Chernobyl into the Black Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, here is a post on a website run by marine scientists that addresses each of the concerns that have arisen on several sensationalistic and misleading websites and explains why they are inaccurate: \u003ca href=\"http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=15903\" target=\"_blank\">28 fallacies about the Fukushima nuclear disaster’s effect on the U.S. West Coast\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, here is the Natural Resources Defense Council on the topic: \u003ca href=\"http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mmckinzie/fukushima_radiation_risks_from.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fukushima Radiation Risks from Eating Fish\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hope this explains why the KQED Science team hasn’t covered this topic. We do cover a range of topics concerning the ocean ecosystems and marine life off the coasts of Northern California, and would not ignore credible information concerning radiation poisoning in these waters.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest recent Net-enabled Fukushima shocker originated in our own backyard. It came by way of a YouTube video shot near Half Moon Bay and posted just before Christmas. From there it has gone viral. (Here's one version, possibly the original judging from the traffic it's gotten, though it misidentifies the location as Pacifica State Beach: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcQLxT49ZP0\" target=\"_blank\">Fukushima Radiation Hits San Francisco\u003c/a>?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What exactly does the 7½-minute video show?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It features a man visiting the beach with a Geiger counter, a device that detects the presence of radioactive material (here's \u003ca href=\"http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~nick/geiger/\" target=\"_blank\">one simple description\u003c/a> of a counter and what it measures). Typically, a Geiger counter emits a clicking sound when it counts a radioactive particle and gives a readout of \"counts per minute\" (CPM), the rate of radioactive particles it's detecting. The higher the CPM, the higher the radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Surfer's Beach video begins in a parking lot, and the Geiger counter shows what's considered to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/perspective.html\" target=\"_blank\">a normal background level of radiation\u003c/a>, about 30 CPM. But when the man holding the counter walks down to the sand, the level jumps and tops out at 156. The man, identified \u003ca href=\"http://www.rense.com/general96/radiationoncabch.html\" target=\"_blank\">elsewhere\u003c/a> as \"Dave,\" says: \"And so the width of the sand pretty much the length of this particular beach it looks like is contaminated at least three times over (background radiation levels).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There's Radiation — But Not From Fukushima\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video has prompted public health officials to look at what's going on at Surfer's Beach. As several local media outlets have reported, both county and state health officials are saying the radiation probably has a natural, local origin. Here's David Perlman \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Coast-getting-little-radiation-from-Fukushima-5125645.php\" target=\"_blank\">in the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, who wrote that tests of sand from the beach \"show that the radiation has come from natural sources — most probably from ancient rocks eroded in the bluffs above.\" The story continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"There is no public health risk at California beaches due to radioactivity related to events at Fukushima,\" the California Department of Public Health said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Recent tests by the San Mateo County Public Health Department show that elevated levels of radiation at Half Moon Bay are due to naturally occurring materials and not radioactivity associated with the Fukushima incident,\" it said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Mark Noack of the Half Moon Bay Review \u003ca href=\"http://www.hmbreview.com/news/experts-say-beach-radiation-unrelated-to-fukushima/article_d3bb5b14-77ea-11e3-a37b-001a4bcf887a.html\" target=\"_blank\">has also been reporting\u003c/a> on the video and on what's causing the radiation readings on Surfer's Beach. One of the people he's talked to is Steve Weiss, a Geiger counter designer who lives near the beach:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On Monday, Weiss carried a Geiger counter in each hand for a second survey of Surfer's Beach. As he descended to the waterline, the readings on his gadgets climbed. He tested various spots: the side of the bluffs and the white sand closest to the waterline, both registering levels that were high but not suspiciously so as far as he was concerned. But when he placed the sensors down near a line of black silt along the back of the beach, the meters on both his gadgets spiked. The counters registered about 415 counts per minute. A cpm of 30 is considered the baseline for radioactivity typically found in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not normal. I've never seen 400 cpm when I just wave my Geiger around.” he said. “There has to be something radioactive for it to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss is no amateur; for 40 years he has made a living designing Geiger counters, most recently for International Medcom Inc. After he verified the hots pot, he took a sample of the dark sediment and sent it to his company's main offices in Sebastopol for analysis.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The company's CEO, Dan Sythe, analyzed the samples. He reported on his own blog, \u003ca href=\"http://geigercounter.com/california-beach-radiation-fukushima/\" target=\"_blank\">Geiger Counter Bulletin,\u003c/a> that the radiation in the sand emanated from radium and thorium — \"naturally occurring radioactive materials\" — not from the cesium isotope that would show it to have come from Fukushima. Sythe characterized the radiation level as \"elevated, but roughly equivalent to some granite counter top material from Brazil.\" And he said the actual source of the Surfer's Beach material still merits investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">For the 10,000th time: Always be skeptical and questioning of what you read on the Net.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So, what's the takeaway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concern over the \u003cem>long-term\u003c/em> impact of Fukushima is understandable. The disaster is akin to an ongoing experiment that will be teaching us about radiation's impacts for many years to come. At the same time, it's pretty clear there's nothing to the almost daily claims that the West Coast is being blasted, flooded, roasted or fried by Fukushima radiation. For the 10,000th time: Always be skeptical and questioning of what you read on the Net, and look for context and confirmation for any and all claims. We don't exempt our own offerings from that advice either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>* * *\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Here's the letter we've sent to listeners and readers who have asked for information about the impact of Fukushima radiation on the West Coast:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Thank you for being a KQED listener and for your email regarding Internet buzz about ocean contamination from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information on the Internet that claims that the tsunami debris near the West Coast is radioactive, or that huge plumes of nuclear water are heading for the West Coast, or that fish here are carrying dangerously high levels of radiation, is false. These claims are unsubstantiated and not supported by scientists who have studied the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d recommend reading this information — \u003ca href=\"http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=83397&tid=3622&cid=94989\" target=\"_blank\">Fukushima Radiation \u003c/a>— from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, one of the world’s leading marine science organizations. The writer, Ken Buesseler, organized the first comprehensive study of the spread of radionuclides from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. He gained expertise on the topic when he studied the spread of radionuclides from Chernobyl into the Black Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, here is a post on a website run by marine scientists that addresses each of the concerns that have arisen on several sensationalistic and misleading websites and explains why they are inaccurate: \u003ca href=\"http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=15903\" target=\"_blank\">28 fallacies about the Fukushima nuclear disaster’s effect on the U.S. West Coast\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, here is the Natural Resources Defense Council on the topic: \u003ca href=\"http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mmckinzie/fukushima_radiation_risks_from.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fukushima Radiation Risks from Eating Fish\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hope this explains why the KQED Science team hasn’t covered this topic. We do cover a range of topics concerning the ocean ecosystems and marine life off the coasts of Northern California, and would not ignore credible information concerning radiation poisoning in these waters.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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An explosion ripped through a reactor building Monday afternoon (Tuesday morning Japan time)—the third blast since Saturday as workers struggled to deal with pressure buildups in three of the six reactor buildings at the plant. Later, a fire broke out in a fourth reactor building. The new explosion and fire were apparently responsible for a spike in radiation levels around the plant. People living within 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) of the plant complex were ordered to evacuate; those within 30 kilometers (10 miles) were told to stay indoors to avoid radiation exposure. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan addressed the nation after Tuesday morning’s blast. “Radiation levels around the compound have risen to fairly high levels,” Kan said. “There is a danger of even higher radiation levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So: How bad is the Fukushima situation? And will it affect us in California? To the second question, we’ll just say: We’d like to know, too, and we’re working to find out. 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