The Environmental Protection Agency is awaiting the results of radiation monitoring in Georgia. But so far, only trace amounts of radioactive isotopes have been found nationally, meaning people in the United States do not face a health risk following the natural disasters in Japan.
Other testing areas, located mostly in the western United States, have found minimal amounts of radiation, but nothing beyond what is to be expected, Davina Marraccini, EPA spokeswoman, told the AJC.
"These are not levels that we are concerned of in any way affecting people's health," Marraccini said.
Georgia has testing sites in Atlanta, Augusta, Baxley and Savannah.
Japan's Fukushima nuclear complex was damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
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