Safety Resources

• Radiation Impacts on Alaska Native Populations: A presentation by the U.S. EPA Office of Radiation and Indoor Air
• Radiation Protection: Fukushima Information and Resources from U.S. EPA
• RadNet Air Monitoring for National Air Quality Conference: Presentation by the U.S. EPA Office of Radiation and Indoor Air
• Environmental Radiation: Japanese Nuclear Reactor Information Alaska Division of Air Quality from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation

• Drinking water data summaries (Environmental Protection Agency RadNet)
• Fukushima-derived radionuclides in the ocean and biota closer to Japan: Scientific article

  Ken O. Buesseler, Steven R. Jayne, Nicholas S. Fisher, Irina I. Rypina, Hannes Baumann, Zofia Baumann, Crystaline F. Breier, Elizabeth M. Douglass, Jennifer George, Alison M. Macdonald, Hiroomi Miyamoto, Jun Nishikawa, Steven M. Pike, and Sashiko Yoshida. PNAS. 2012

• How Radioactive is Our Ocean? (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

• Fukushima Radiation Concerns in Alaska: Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)
• Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Response to Fukushima Accident
• Seafood Safety Statement from FDA, EPA and NOAA
• Evaluation of Radiation Doses and Associated Risk from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident to Marine Biota and Human Consumers of Seafood. Scientific article:

  Nicholas S. Fisher, Karine Beaugelin-Seiller, Thomas G. Hinton, Zofia Baumann, Daniel J. Madigan, and Jacqueline Garnier-Laplace. PNAS. 2013.

• Radiocesium in Pacific Bluefin Tuna Thunnus orientalis in 2012 Validates New Tracer Technique (Scientific article)
• Pacific bluefin tuna transport Fukushima-derived radionuclides from Japan to California (Scientific article)

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Marine Debris FAQ
• Effects of Fukushima Radiation on the US Marine Environment (Alaska Department of Health and Social Services)
• Canadian Ocean Sciences Division Japan Tsunami Debris Presentation (Fisheries and Oceans-Government of Canada)
• Assessment of Radiation Risk of Tsunami Debris (Government of British Columbia, Canada)

Find out what other Pacific Northwest State Departments of Health are doing in regards to Fukushima:

• State of California
• State of Hawaii
• State of Oregon
• State of Washington

Radiation & Health Effects Resources

• EPA Radiogenic Cancer Risk Models and Projections for the US Population (This is how EPA assesses cancer risks from radiation exposure)
• Cancer statistics for the U.S. population (National Cancer Institute)
• State of Alaska Section of Epidemiology Japan Earthquake Public Health Preparedness
• Radiation Basics by Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
• Radiation and Human Health: Exposure by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute