A Radiation Plume is headed towards us!!

Yikes, I read today that radiation from a power plant in Japan that was damaged by the recent earthquake, has escaped and a plume of it is drifting towards the United States. They say it will hit California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. They don't expect it to be very strong by the time it hits here, but still . . . Here's what they are saying:

A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday.
Health and nuclear experts emphasize that radiation in the plume will be diluted as it travels and, at worst, would have extremely minor health consequences in the United States, even if hints of it are ultimately detectable. In a similar way, radiation from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 spread around the globe and reached the West Coast of the United States in ten days, its levels measurable but minuscule.
The projection, by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, an arm of the United Nations in Vienna, gives no information about actual radiation levels but only shows how a radioactive plume would probably move and disperse.
The forecast, calculated Tuesday, is based on patterns of Pacific winds at that time and the predicted path is likely to change as weather patterns shift.
On Sunday, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it expected that no “harmful levels of radioactivity” would travel from Japan to the United States “given the thousands of miles between the two countries.”
The forecast assumes that radioactivity in Japan is released continuously and forms a rising plume. It ends with the plume heading into Southern California and the American Southwest, including Nevada, Utah and Arizona. The plume would have continued eastward if the United Nations scientists had run the projection forward.

John went to St. Johns this morning to burn the weeds on our cemetery lot and I stayed home and walked. It's starting to be easier for me to walk, I'm getting back to where I was when we quit in December. It was nice out and I didn't even have to wear a jacket! I went for another walk later in the day and it had gotten breezy. The wind was blowing hard enough that the windmill was pumping water! That's the first time I've seen it do that!