Alaska seafood again tests free of Fukushima radiation
Alaska Dispatch News By Chris Klint November 30, 201 For a second year, seafood taken from Alaska waters has tested negative for radiation from Japan’s 2011 Fukushima tsunami and nuclear disaster, state officials say. The Department of Environmental Conservation said Monday that the tests show no appreciable iodine-131, cesium-137 or cesium-134 in samples of cod, halibut, herring, pollock, sablefish and king, chum, sockeye and pink salmon. The fish were collected from the Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska, Bristol Bay and Southeast Alaska, following negative test results on Alaska seafood last year. Scientists had suggested that Fukushima radiation in water might peak in 2015. “The testing in 2015 continues to confirm that the quality of Alaska seafood has not been impacted, with all tests showing ‘non-detect’ for radionuclides associated with the Fukushima nuclear disaster,” DEC officials wrote. Marlena Brewer, a risk management specia
