Big Blue Fin tuna become radioactive after Fukushima Dai-Chi Reactors exploded

 When buying your fish next time - consider if they are radioactive safe after Fukushima contamination?

From "The Australian" News Report:

"ACROSS the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States, almost 10,000km away - the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.

"We were frankly kind of startled," said Nicholas Fisher, one of the researchers reporting the findings online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that's still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the US and Japanese governments.

Previously, smaller fish and plankton were found with elevated levels of radiation in Japanese waters after a magnitude-nine earthquake in March 2011 triggered a tsunami that badly damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors.

But scientists did not expect the fallout to linger in huge fish that sail the world as they can shed radioactive substances".

Please click on the link for more at The Australian Newspaper.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/japan-tsunami/radioactive-bluefin-tuna-cross-pacific-carrying-fukushima-contamination/story-fn84naht-1226371004081