Delvan Neville, Tim Fitzgerald and Ben Blakey have a lot in common. Despite not knowing one another, each is dedicated to protecting a United States fishery and dispelling what they say is misinformation about the area’s environmental impacts.
Neville, a doctoral candidate in Radiation Health Physics at Oregon State University, has spent months analysing samples of albacore tuna caught in the Pacific Ocean to prove the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor hasn’t contaminated the Pacific seafood.
The highest level of radioactive materials he’s found in predatory species “is more than 1,000 times lower than the point where the Food and Drug Administration would even think about whether or not they need to let people eat that food,” he said.
