Finally they're talking about Fukushima radionuclides detected in the U.S. and even Iceland!

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/28/threat-japanese-radiation-spread/

 HOWEVER they're still not giving out dose rates, instead dumbing down with statements like "amounts continue to be far below levels that would cause health problems" which are too vague. 

Looks like the Nuclear Regulatory Commission doesn't trust the Japanese hazard reporting either

How Far from Fukushima Will Fallout Pose a Health Risk?

Amid conflicting evacuation recommendations, radiation experts say that exposures to date have been relatively low outside the power plant and that people in the U.S. will not face any danger

By John Matson 
March 18, 2011

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=japan-nuclear-plume

The NRC's McIntyre says that the recommendation for additional evacuations in Japan is not incompatible with the standard 16-kilometer evacuation plan for a U.S. accident. "The 10-mile [16-kilometer] zone was always conceived as something that could be expanded as the situation warranted," he says. McIntyre notes that the NRC's shift—from publicly backing Japan's handling of the accident to publicly recommending a much stronger response—stems from the fact everyone is reliant on the Japanese authorities for accurate, up-to-date information on the situation. "Part of this is the difficulty in obtaining and assessing data. We're dependent on the Japanese for the data, pretty much," he says. "We're trying to get the information and assess it. Yesterday the information we had led our team to conclude that it was time to take action."

This tells me that the NRC isn't trusting the Japanese assurances of little risk from spreading radioactivity and is making their own assessment of the situation taking that into account.  It's certainly seemed that the Japanese officials have been less than honest and this is validation of that.  Perhaps if and when radiation arrives in Alaska, Hawaii, or the West Coast of the United States, the NRC will be more honest than their Japanese counterparts.  For now though my recommendation is DON'T DRINK FRESH MILK until it's known that no "hot spots" of radiation deposition have reached us.

AOL assimilation of the Huffington Post

So now instead of two different versions of the news we have mirror images:


Radiation in Seawater May Be Spreading in Japan

A) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/28/japan-radiation_n_841260.html

B) http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/28/radiation-in-seawater-may-be-spreading-in-japan/

Reactor Core At Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Plant May Have Been Breached

According to the Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/25/reactor-core-breach-japan-fukushima-daiichi_n_840449.html:

Japanese nuclear safety officials said Friday that they suspect that the reactor core at one unit of the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant may have breached, raising the possibility of more severe contamination to the environment.

"It is possible that somewhere at the reactor may have been damaged," said Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the nuclear safety agency. But he added that "our data suggest the reactor retains certain containment functions," implying that the damage may have occurred in Unit 3's reactor core but that it was limited.

Now I could be wrong but I sure have been getting the impression that the "Japanese nuclear safety officials" are trying very hard to not alarm the public by not revealing any more information than they feel they absolutely must.  A reactor core breach isn't the kind of thing that they're likely to be at all uncertain about, but they are qualifying it as if they're not sure.  And saying "our data suggest the reactor retains certain containment functions" sounds like they're trying to make the case that it's not so bad because gee at least SOME of the core hasn't gone up in radioactive smoke yet.

Eventually we will learn of course what was really going on and when.  I just hope we are warned appropriately beforehand by SOMEONE along the way for example when our nation's dairy supply becomes contaminated with radioiodine and maybe even radiostrontium.  As it certainly will, it is only a question of how much.

Internal radiation exposure versus external

From How Far from Fukushima Will Fallout Pose a Health Risk?
 

Outside the immediate vicinity of the nuclear site, the primary danger is not radiation emitted directly from the plant as high-energy photons or subatomic particles but airborne radioactive material released from a damaged reactor into an atmospheric plume. The material in that plume, as it undergoes radioactive decay, gives off dangerous radiation in the form of gamma rays and can pose additional hazards if inhaled, swallowed or absorbed through the skin to emit radiation from inside the body.

"Internal exposure is very different than contamination you can walk away from," says Jerrold Bushberg, a health and medical physicist at the University of California, Davis. "If there's a plume that passes overhead and some of the material precipitates down, you may be externally contaminated, but it's nothing that a change of clothes and a shower can't take care of."

Hello World

Just opening up to share my knowledge with Japan and the rest of the world: how to protect yourself from internally deposited radionuclides. See the Antinuclear Nutrition homepage for the ebook that will answer all your immediate questions and bring you up to speed on this important information.  Your health and even your life may one day depend on how effectively you deal with a nuclear catastrophe like the one the world is watching with horror right now in Japan.