Don’t panic! Fukushima radiation just hit the West Coast

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By Amelia UrryJan 7, 2015, 6:05 am55 pts
Nuclear energy gives plenty of people the heebie-jeebies: Like horror-movie ghosts and ancestral curses, you can’t see or feel or smell it, but it can still kill you. So when Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant was damaged in March 2011, releasing a flood of radioactive cesium-tinged water into the Pacific,…

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