(STATESMANJOURNAL) — Seaborne radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster has reached North America.
Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution detected small amounts of cesium-134 and cesium-137 in a sample of seawater taken in February from a dock on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
It's the first time radioactivity from the March 2011 triple meltdown has been identified on West Coast shores.
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Woods Hole chemical oceanographer Ken Buesseler emphasized that the radiation is at very low levels that aren't expected to harm human health or the environment.
