by Camille Bains
The Canadian Press
Originally published in The Globe and Mail
14 Sept 2017
Radioactive contamination following a nuclear power-plant disaster in Japan never reached unsafe levels in the north Pacific Ocean for either marine life or human health, says a British Columbia scientist. Continue reading Japan’s nuclear disaster didn’t affect fish or human health: B.C. scientist
By Bethany Lindsay
Vancouver Sun
Published 23 Feb 2016
Nearly five years after a massive earthquake resulted in the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, researchers in B.C. have found no detectable levels of contamination in fish along the West Coast.
Continue reading No radiation from Japan’s Fukushima disaster found in BC fish
![‘The amount of radioactivity from these isotopes from Fukushima in our water or in our fish [is] a fraction of the count you’d get using a Geiger counter,’ University of Victoria’s Dr. Jay Cullen said. (John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail)](https://i0.wp.com/static.theglobeandmail.ca/7cd/news/british-columbia/article28846577.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/bc-radiation22nw1.JPG)
The Globe and Mail
Published 23 Feb 2016
Five years after the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, radioactive contaminants continue to circulate across the Pacific to Canada’s West Coast, but not at dangerous levels.
Continue reading Radiation from Fukushima nuclear disaster not found in B.C. salmon
Originally published by the Japan Times
By Alastair Wanklyn
Published Nov 17, 2015
An activist who alleges a global cover-up over the extent of pollution from the Fukushima No. 1 disaster is due in court in Victoria, Canada, on Wednesday over threats he allegedly made against the lives of two environmental scientists. Continue reading Anti-nuclear firebrand’s case heads to Canadian court over death threats against Fukushima environmental scientists
Published Monday, April 6, 2015 7:32PM EDT
VICTORIA — Radiation from the leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor has been detected on the shores of Vancouver Island, four years after a deadly earthquake and tsunami in Japan killed 16,000 people.
University of Victoria chemical oceanographer Jay Cullen said Monday that it’s the first time radiation has been found on the shorelines of North America since the quake and tsunami ravaged the Japanese north coast and disabled the nuclear reactor. Continue reading Radiation from Fukushima reactor detected off Vancouver Island
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