Radiation testing finds no health threat along West Coast
March 19, 2011 - 11:49 am
SAN FRANCISCO -- Minuscule amounts of radiation from Japan's stricken nuclear plant have reached the West Coast but federal and state officials say it poses no health risk. They said Friday that the doses of radiation that a person normally receives from rocks, bricks, and the sun are 100,000 times the dose rates detected at a monitoring station in California and another in Washington state.