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hkmurakami
on Aug 22, 2013
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Fukushima leak is 'much worse than we were led to ...
I guess it helps that the winds blow from west to east (i.e. straight into the ocean where the next country is ~8000 miles away)
205guy
on Aug 22, 2013
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3800 miles and the next country is ... USA (Hawaii). However, both winds and water currents tend to go north of Hawaii, so it is more like 5200 miles on the great circle to California.
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