Although small amounts of radiation have been found in the U.S., students have nothing to worry about.

When the earthquake and tsunami struck the country of Japan on March 11, million’s were killed and monetary loses were huge.

Beyond that, what caught people’s attention was the speculation of a nuclear disaster after Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was damaged during the tragedy.

Soon the country began to look for ways to stop that from happening and luckily experts were able to stop the plant from creating an even bigger disaster.

And yes, it’s true that small amounts of radiation leaked from the plant and have reached a number of countries or states.

However, it’s been proven that the amounts found in California and other parts of the U.S. are too small to cause any harm.

According to an article by BBC news, levels of radiation at the Japanese plant are of about 400 millisieverts, that is the common unit for measuring radiation exposure.

The same article said that a single dose of 1,000 mSv can cause symptoms such as nausea or a decrease in white blood cells but it doesn’t kill anyone.

While exposure to a single dose of 5,000 mSv can kill a person within a month.

Japan citizens should be worried but not people in California because radiation here is of about 19 mSv.

Even though this number is higher than normal, it is just far too small to have any consequences on the American people.

The Japanese seem to be doing what is best for its people and they ordered anyone who lived within 12 miles of the plant to evacuate.

They also advised citizens to leave their homes or stay indoors if they live within 18 miles of the plant.

If not, both groups could face some level of danger from the radiation.

But California is more than 7,000 miles away from the nuclear plant.

Isn’t that enough to say that we shouldn’t worry?

Americans in general should be concerned with possible local disasters and not about nuclear radiation from the Japanese plant.

California might be the scenario for a similar earthquake and a possible tsunami at any time.