No radiation found in BC fish in connection with Fukushima disaster
Posted February 23, 2016 9:51 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – It’s been five years since we were warned about the potential health risks following a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan that saw millions of litres of radioactive water flow into the Pacific.
The Integrated Fukushima Ocean Radionuclide Monitoring or InFORM is made up of academics, citizen scientists, government, and non-governmental organizations.
It works to gather data and determine what kind of risks the Fukushima disaster poses to oceans in our country.
InFORM says we don’t have much to worry about — the amount of radiation is thousands of times lower than the maximum amount allowed to be in our water.
Its findings indicate radiation is being found at low levels in the waters off our coast that are most exposed to the open ocean.
They looked for evidence of two types of radiation in fish.
One type wasn’t found in any of the samples gathered between June and October of last year, though the group suspects it is there, just not at levels they’ve been able to detect.
Low amounts of a second type have been found, and the experts say it looks like there is a trend of that one increasing.
