Excerpt: "The Obama administration's initial reluctance to release its own radiation information and the haphazard way that thereadings came dribbling out of Europe first - not the United States - raised questions about whether American officials were being as forthcoming as they had pressed the Japanese to be."
A shopper searches for earthquake survival supplies near a display of gas masks at the Army & Navy Military Surplus Store. (photo: AP)
Radiation Reaching US, More Transparency Called For
19 March 11
Faint traces of very low levels of radiation from the stricken nuclear complex in Japan have been detected in Sacramento, European officials reported Friday, bringing the distant atomic crisis to American shores for the first time.
The readings, picked up by highly sensitive detectors set up to monitor clandestine nuclear blasts, were the first solid evidence of the leading edge of a long radioactive plume that has drifted slowly across the Pacific with the prevailing winds over the past week and has now reached the continental United States.
Health experts said the plume's radiation had been diluted enormously in its journey across thousands of miles and - at least for now, with concentrations very low - would have no health consequences in the United States. In a similar way, radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spread around the globe and reached the West Coast of the United States in 10 days, its levels detectable but minuscule.]
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