EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Health Department is now posting radiation levels online in response to growing public concern about exposure from Japan’s nuclear plants.
Department spokesman Donn Moyer says so far, nothing other than normal background radiation levels has been detected.
The state agency has been monitoring radiation levels for decades. Moyer told The Herald newspaper it was a challenge to figure out how to post the information in a way that would be easy to understand.
Moyer says there’s radiation in Washington state’s environment all the time, from the sun, and X-rays and computer monitors, for example. The levels would have to be hundreds of thousands of times higher than current readings before health officials would recommend any response.
