Author: JEREMY HSU, LIVESCIENCE.COM via Discovery News

  • Oceanic plume of radioactivity predicted to reach US by 2014

    A radioactive plume of water in the Pacific Ocean from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, which was crippled in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, will likely reach U.S. coastal waters starting in 2014, according to a new study. The long journey of the radioactive particles could help researchers better understand how the ocean’s currents circulate around…