Surveyors examining several Alaska beaches for Japanese tsunami debris found fuel canisters and scores of Styrofoam blocks and oyster floats, but not a hint of radiation associated with the trash, according to a new report. Some fear the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear reactor that followed the massive tsunami in March last year would have contaminated the flotsam with radiation.
Surveyors examining several Alaska beaches for Japanese tsunami debris found fuel canisters and scores of Styrofoam blocks and oyster floats, but not a hint of radiation associated with the trash, according to a new report. Some fear the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear reactor that followed the massive tsunami in March last year would have contaminated the flotsam with radiation.