In a worst case scenario of violent radioactive event, radioactive material caught in westerly wind could impact Japan and possible Manchuria China.
But I thought that the winds go east from Japan across the Pacific. Wouldn't the radiation reach our shores?
I had a roommate in graduate school and his thesis was measuring the spikes in radiation in mud sediment at the bottom on Western Washington lakes that corresponded to each nuclear bomb tests in Nevada and Nagasaki and Hiroshima attacks. It is slight, but has a world wide effect.
A wind coming from the west would take a radioactive plume towards the east! That means the Aleutians, Alaska, the USA.
Aren’t there really bad jet streams there that move in a northeasterly direction? At this time of year I remember how they would give us one heck of a tailwind going from Japan to the US West Coast.
They have a containment vessel, there isn’t going to be a violent radioactive event.