Fukushima radiation detected at Tillamook Bay, Gold Beach shores
by Associated PressThursday, December 8th 2016

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2013, file photo, Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s official gives a briefing to journalists at H4 tank area, where radioactive water leaked from storage tank in August 2013, at TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant at Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Five years after a powerful earthquake and tsunami sent the nuclear power plant in the country into multiple meltdowns, cleaning up the mess both onsite and in surrounding towns remains a work in progress. (Kimimasa Mayama/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Researchers say seawater samples taken from Tillamook Bay and Gold Beach indicate radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster, but at extremely low levels not harmful to humans or the environment.

The radiation will not hurt you. Why is the EPA Portland, OR radiation site is in the Alert Radcon-5 condition?????


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Last updated: 2016-12-09 12:23:00 GMT-0600

Thanks for the heads-up.

Maybe this snow storm will pull down most of the radiation with it to the West of me before the storm reaches my station here in Illinois. As a warning to my friends and family, I did just put this this post out on my Facebook page.