date:May 31, 2012
We were frankly kind of startled, said Nicholas Fisher, one of the researchers reporting the findings online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that's still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the US and Japanese governments, reportsBusiness Week.
Previously, smaller fish and plankton were found with elevated levels of radia