Leading American daily Los Angeles Times said today in a story that radiation, spreading from the earthquake and tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan which had experienced four hydrogen explosions this week, has been fast travelling through the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean and is on its way to California.
The daily, however, quoted experts as saying that the radiation would be within the safe limits and poses no threat to life. The radiation mixed up with the atmosphere will reach the US West Coast by Friday evening and it may take another one week to reach southern California, the paper said.
The Radnet of the country, having a network of 100 radiation monitors and operated by the US Environmental Protection Agency, has been monitoring the levels of radiation heading towards US West Coast.
Experts have said the particles of radiation would perish or wash out of the atmosphere before they reach the US.
