Radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant has Reached North American Shores weather.com Posted: Apr 8 2015 05:31 PM EDT?

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution detected this back in November 2014 off California. This is just ocean currents have managed to carry some of the longer lived radioactive isotopes from Fukushima Daiichi to the west coast of North America. The levels are thousands of times lower than a level at which it could be thought of as a problem.

I just won't move to Canada is a typical con answer. If it doesn't effect them today it isn't a problem.

I'm sure the California coastline is next. I don't know if the debris is radioactive but the water sure is.

They still have a serious problem over there. They tried dry ice to keep the rods cool, no go.

They are still pumping water in there and it is leaking into the ocean. This is not to be taken lightly.

Oh yea, and it was Obama's fault.

What nonsense.

Electromagnetic radiation travels at the speed of light. It would reach Vancouver Island in a fraction of second -- if not for the fact that tens of thousands of kilometers of Earth and billions of tons of atmosphere are blocking them. Direct particle radiation (alpha and beta particles) move at around 5% of the speed of light and would reach Vancouver Island in a second -- if not for the fact that tens of thousands of kilometers of Earth and billions of tons of atmosphere are blocking them. High altitude particles carrying radiation in the jet stream move at 300km/h and would reach Vancouver Island in a day or two. Debris washed out to sea would be carried by the Gulf Stream. This moves at about 6-7km/h. It would reach Vancouver Island in about three years. Debris has been washing ashore in North America (and on western Canada) since mid-2014.

I fail to see the 'now' part of this. Particles from the sky arrived in western Canada four years ago. Debris has been washing a shore for nearly 10 months now.

This is impossible accoprding to conservatism: there is nothing man can ever do that would have an effect on the global environment.

Obviously the story is just a part of the liberal agenda to make everyone hippies.

Should have been here a lot faster than that... seeing that debris has been washing up there for YEARS....

I just won't move to Canada.