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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Radioactive Bluefin Tuna Crossed the Pacific to US

Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away _ the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.

"We were frankly kind of startled," said Nicholas Fisher, one of the researchers reporting the findings online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that's still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the U.S. and Japanese governments

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Suhi that glows in the dark awesome

Anonymous said...

hmmmm. do you really trust the limits set by the U.S. government; let alone any other government? i don't think so...

Anonymous said...

I've never knowingly bought or consumed any seafood from Indonesia, China, Japan...any Pacific coastal countries for fear of contamination. Especially since the great Tsunami. I hesitate to get Alaskan & west coast products as well. Local is scary enough...