USS Ronald Reagan Sails Through Radiation Cloud

Today the New York Times reports that the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, sent to help with the ongoing rescue effort in Japan, sailed through a radio active cloud presumed to have come from the Fukushima nuclear plant.

What's probably more disturbing is that helicopters flying more than 60 miles north of the plant were coated in radioactive material when they came back to the carrier:

"The officials added that American helicopters flying missions about 60 miles north of the damaged reactors became coated with particulate radiation that had to be washed off."(NY Times)


These are troubling developments out of Japan, and only highlight the fact that they are far from being out of the woods.