Here's even more great news for the struggling city of Las Vegas: small amounts of radiation from Japan have reached the city, according to a Nevada monitoring station. The city joins several other major West Coast population centers where radiation from Japan's blown up nuclear has reached.Experts from the Desert Research Institute say that the minuscule amounts of isotopes cesium-137, xenon-133, and iodine-131 are too small to have any real effect on Las Vegas residents' health. They say the same thing is true even in Hawaii, the island state that is much closer to Japan. According to a radiation physicist for the Nevada State Health Division:
"Any material released must travel 10,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean, during which time it will be dispersed and diluted in the atmosphere to levels that might eventually be detectable, but which will not present a health hazard nor require any protective actions."
All Las Vegas and Southern Nevada residents (including us!) are obviously worried about any health risks from the Japanese radiation. But when you consider the fact that they used to explode nuclear bombs just a little to the north of Vegas we probably have bigger things to worry about.
Learn some mo': Tiny amounts of radiation from Japan reach Las Vegas
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