Japan Disaster: The Growing Threats of Airborne Radiation

Radioactive Iodine and Cesium continue to spread, despite efforts to control radioactive water pools at the severely damaged, Japanese plant. Airborne radiation has already spread to California, Seattle, and even Chicago, and it's only a matter of time before these harmful particles reach levels that are too high to ignore. Chernobyl should serve as a cautionary tale; fearing widespread panic, the Soviet authorities, under President Gorbachev, ordered citizens to continue life as normal. Despite mounting evidence of radiation spreading to the West Coast, federal and safety agencies in the United States continue to assure American citizens that the Japan disaster poses no immediate threat, as several media sources like the BBC, have even gone as far to call Japanese nuclear safety reports a "mistake" claiming that their results were exaggerated. 

In Japan, people do not know if their food or water is safe; a similar situation will soon be facing the United States, if agencies like the EPA and the RadNet testing project continue to assure that airborne radiation, poses no risk to public health or safety. For now, Americans are being told to continue life as normal.