From Washington's Blog:

I noted in June that debris from carried out to sea in the Japanese tsunami would hit the Western U.S. and Canada within a year or so, and that nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen urged us to demand testing of radioactivity from the American government.

It turns out that scientists underestimated the speed with which the debris would reach the Western coast of North America.

As Canada's National Post reports today:

The largest items swept out to sea following the Japanese tsunami in March could arrive on the B.C. coastline within days, oceanographer Curt Ebbesmeyer predicted on Wednesday.

The main part of the 20-million-tonne debris field, equivalent in size to the state of California...

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More on the Japanese earthquake:

Radiation experts: Tokyo may have to be evacuated

Fukushima update: "Things are not getting better in Japan..."

Radiation expert: Some areas of Tokyo are now worse than Chernobyl