Radiation News Roundup March 16, 2014 Thousands of campaigners have rallied against nuclear power in Tokyo as the government and utilities move toward resumption of reactors in southern Japan. skynews.com Scientists have crowdsourced a network of volunteers taking water samples at beaches along the U.S. West Coast in hopes of capturing a detailed look at low levels of radiation drifting across the ocean since the 2011 tsunami that devastated a nuclear power plant in Japan. phys.org A fire which sparked the evacuation of a major underground US nuclear waste plant last month was preventable, according to a report highlighting safety lapses at the site. phys.org A recent research project found the levels of Strontium-90 in a sample of baby teeth from the central coast region of California near the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo County have increased since the plant's opening in the mid-'80s. truth-out.org
