Has anyone measured levels in the ocean?

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The acreage and volume of the Pacific Ocean has been published on this site. The Pacific is big.

The oceanic radioactive contamination levels near Japan have also been published, again on this site. The concentrations in the water, seaweed and sediment are high.

The radioactive fallout levels across, the Marianas, Saipan, Hawai'i and California are published weekly. The oceanic currents, at various depths have been long mapped.

The migrations of salmon and tuna are well mapped.

This particular Anon-y-mous-1234 must be new.

I understand that nuclear power is potentially extremely dangerous and that Japan has many more worries than we do here in the U.S. However, when I send my children out to play in the ocean over here or in Hawaii, I would like to know that I am not exposing them to a potential hazard that could have been avoided. Testing should be be performed and we should all not just assume that the water is safe for our children and ourselves. With information, testing, and public knowledge of this data, maybe change will come and thoughts about the nuclear industry as a primary source of energy for the US will be re-thought. Just think of the public outcry and economic implications if our oceans were deemed unsafe for recreation and as a food source. It is something that nobody wants to think about, and that is why independent testing is so important! Greenpeace is doing it, but they cannot do it all. We need independent testing on our shores here in the U.S. and that info made public. And I believe if we can do that, things will change...because right now the public is so uninformed that they think there are no issues and that someone would tell them if there was...and we are seeing now that that may not be the case.
Anyway, I would love it if BRAWM would throw in a seawater sample or two. Love you guys for what you are doing.

Federal regulators on Monday gave the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant a 20-year license renewal, despite calls for reconsideration following the nuclear disaster in Japan.

Issuance of the license was a foregone conclusion after the NRC voted to approve it on March 10, one day before an earthquake and tsunami triggered the still unfolding crisis at the Fukushima reactors in northeastern Japan, which are of the same design and about the same age as Vermont Yankee.

Vermont Yankee spokesman Larry Smith said officials there and with the plant's parent company, New Orleans-based Entergy Corp., were pleased to have the license in hand. But he added, "It's not a cause right now for any celebration in light of world events."

"I think the NRC has done their job," Smith added. "This has been a five-year review. There's been ample opportunity for people to weigh in."

The license renewal was granted a year to the day before Vermont Yankee's initial 40-year license was to expire. The plant still must be relicensed by the state, but the Senate last year rejected the idea, leaving its future uncertain.

The renewal was the first granted by the NRC since events in Japan began to unfold 10 days earlier.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., had issued a statement Sunday calling for a moratorium on new licenses or license renewals for U.S. reactors in the wake of the Japanese crisis.

"It's hard to understand how the NRC could move forward for a license extension for Vermont Yankee at exactly the same time as a nuclear reactor of similar design is in partial meltdown in Japan," Sanders told The Associated Press. "The idea of keeping Vermont Yankee open ... until it is 60 years of age defies comprehension."

Vermont Yankee, which operations in 1972, is located in Vernon, in Vermont's southeast corner, within sight of New Hampshire across the Connecticut River and about three miles from the Massachusetts line. It's a General Electric Mark 1 boiling water reactor, as are the Fukushima reactors.