Japan Nuclear Crisis: Will the Radiation Spread to the United States?
Panicked Americans are hunting down potassium iodide, frightened that dangerous radiation released from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power station will drift to the West Coast. Nuclear experts tell Josh Dzieza why that’s unlikely—and who’s most at risk.
In this handout images provided by the International Federation of Red Cross Japan, civil defense teams search for survivors March 15, 2011 in Otsuchi, Japan. After a third explosion Tuesday at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the government is