This diary is simply to point interested members of the Daily Kos community to a well presented, cogent summary of what the marine science community knows about Fukushima derived radiation in the North Pacific Ocean. There are useful links provided to the primary literature and explanations of the main findings of these studies.
For those interested SAFECAST in a network of volunteer citizen scientists who have been monitoring radioactivity in the environment since the disaster in March 2011 at the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Link to their page on the Pacific can be found here.