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Japanese radiation now detectable in B.C.

Minute levels measured but considered no risk, more monitoring stations coming
Handout satellite image of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant at Minamisoma after earthquake and tsunami
View from above of the Fukushima nuclear power complex in northeastern Japan

Health officials say sensors in B.C. have now detected "minute" levels of radiation coming here from Japan's leaking nuclear reactors.

But they continue to assure the public there is no cause for residents here to worry  because of the dispersal of radioactive particles across thousands of kilometres of ocean.

"These amounts are negligible and do not pose a health risk to British Columbians," the B.C.

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