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Radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant Still Leaking into the Pacific Ocean

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Radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan continues to leak into the Pacific Ocean raising concerns that seafood is being contaminated. However, the Food and Drug Administration reports that so far there is no evidence that radionuclides from the Fukushima incident are present in the U.S. food supply at levels that would pose a public health concern.

In an update issued earlier this month the FDA stressed that they are not advising consumers to alter their consumption of specific foods imported from Japan or domestically produced seafood. The Fukushima Nuclear Plant was severely damaged during the massive earthquake that stuck Japan in March of 2011. A study published last month by the Center of Excellence for Climate System Science in Australia predicted that a radioactive ocean plume from the Fukushima disaster will reach the shores of the United States as soon as next year. However, the report’s authors caution that the concentration of radioactive material will be below the safety levels established by the World Health Organization. Japanese officials confirm that over 71-thousand gallons of radioactive water is still leaking into the Pacific from the crippled nuclear power plant every day.