Don't worry about a 3% increase in caesium. You won't glow in the dark if you eat tuna fed from Fukushima. Panic merchants love a good panic. I prefer fish.
You are made of radioactive carbon 14. If you freeze your body after you die, by lying in state in Antarctica, then 10,000 years from now, people will be able to do carbon dating on your body to see when you lived, by measuring how much radioactive carbon is left. Radioactive carbon 14 is sitting there right in your DNA which is how some cancer gets as start in life. You have your very own cancer supply built in.
In the good old days, the nuclear bomb makers such as USA, France, Britain liked to test their atomic bombs in the south Pacific, exploding them in the atmosphere. As a result, the strontium 90 levels in the milk I drank as a child went way up, exponentially to parabolically asymptotic levels. Oddly, life expectancy in NZ during that radioactive time rapidly increased. That's more likely because penicillin and some other modern medical practices were developed, WWI and WWII had ended and Spanish Flu was a distant memory than that a bit of strontium 90 is good for you.
Another way you could look at the caesium is that it will increase mutation rates, thereby accelerating evolutionary opportunities for a more rapid improvement in the human gene pool. I prefer a more scientific approach but many people like the natural approach of random mutation and death for the 99.99999% of mutations which were undesirable. We could think of Japan's accident as a public service. Much as all the CO2 pouring out of exhausts should be treated as a public service - free CO2 for crops and wildlife.
China is producing the CO2 and Japan the caesium. Two economic powerhouses improving the world. A Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
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