Fukushima Hits California Hard !

[TheCoolestMan]

Fukushima radiation hits San Francisco! (Dec 2013)

This shocking video was taken December 23rd 2013 with a quality Geiger Counter at Pacifica State Beach (Surfers Beach), California.

Background radiation is 30 CPM. Near the ocean it's 150 CPM. The fine mist coming from the ocean waves seems to be what makes the Geiger Counter jump. More thorough readings need to be done! Where is the useless government/media?

I'm speechless :(
Pretty scary...

 

[woodsmaneh]

Just criminal and no one is doing anything???? WTF

 

[sealed138]

I need a Geiger counter. Creepy.

 

[Welshwizzard]

It's not as if its a problem that has been solved and this is an after effect.

The situation over there is getting progressively worse and none of the Authorities seems to be able to admit they need any help they can get.

 

[Greeneye04]

Japan is gone. Along with all the fish in the pacific! truly tragic!

 

[justblazen]

WTF this is BS! The government needs to do something about this instead of ignoring it. Now it's affecting us directly, how lame our Govt. is since they knew this was coming and didn't take proper preventative measures. Maybe this is their way of regulating the world population. Let a few croke I guess. :eek:

 

[woodsmaneh]

I say we bottle the shit and sell it back to them because it has mysterious powers and will make them love long time. By the time their arms and legs fell off it would be to late. Those people are so fucked and guess what :fucked my their Government:= more immigrants coming your way bro. lhey will all want to leave when they find out every thing from grass to most of what they eat is slowly being poisoned by the nuclear plant. Nice people but fucked.

 

[Blaze]

Fukishima is a horrible disaster no doubt, but I wouldn't freak out quite yet. There has been a LOT of fear-mongering BS circulating the web. Though 150 CPM is above normal back ground radiation, but not by much. In fact many areas around the country have naturally occurring background radiation that is higher than what was measured in this video. Geology and a number of other factors could contribute to such a slight spike in radiation levels. Besides, a single Geiger reading of slightly elevated levels by an a random guy on youtube isn't really much to form a solid conclusion on either. Multiple readings from multiple locations over a longer period of time would make me more convinced - you can't just look at one single point of data and form a conclusion.

At 500 CPM, over 3 times what was supposedly measured in the video, it would take 14 years of constant exposure for the earliest onset of radiation sickness to occur. All this video shows is that the levels at the beach were higher than they were in the woods (but still not at a dangerous level) - which tells us nothing.

 

[neverbreak]

it's gonna get worse. what's happenin over there is catastrophic. it's seems every other day tepco are fuckin up even more badly than they did the time before. 100s of tons of radioactive water are pourin into the pacific daily, while hundred more are being stored, waitin for another earthquake to crack the tanks n release in en masse into the sea to create an even worse environmental disaster.

Fukushima two years on: a dirty job with no end in sight
The tsunami that wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi power plant has led to the toughest nuclear cleanup ever. Radioactive water is still poisoning the sea – and it could take 40 years to fix the mess. Is Japan up to the challenge?

The effects of the tsunami on the building containing Fukushima Daiichi's reactor three. Photograph: Kyodo/Reuters

Carefully, gently, one-by-one. The removal of nuclear fuel rod assemblies from a badly damaged building at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant is finally under way. Months in the planning, the job is risky, complex, and crucial. Here begins the first major step in the toughest decommissioning project ever attempted.

Fukushima is home to six nuclear reactors, three of which were running when the giant tsunami swept across the site on 11 March 2011. The defuelling operation centres on the building for reactor four. Though the reactor was shut down for maintenance when the towering wave struck, all its radioactive fuel, and more from earlier runs, was held in a storage pool on an upper floor of the building.

Under normal conditions, the storage pool above the reactor was a safe haven. But four days into the crisis a hydrogen explosion tore through the structure and blew the walls and roof off. Moving the radioactive fuel from the wrecked building to a more secure site became a high priority. Some fuel assemblies have already been moved. Workers use a crane to reach down into the pool, lift an assembly from its rack, then lower it into a waiting cask that sits upright on the pool floor. When a cask is full – each can take 22 fuel assemblies – a second crane hoists it from the pool and places it on a trailer. Filled casks are then transported to a more secure storage facility on the site.

The procedure sounds straightforward enough. But there are 1,533 fuel assemblies in the pool at building four. Each is 4m long, and holds up to 80 individual fuel rods. The team of 36 workers that are responsible for the job will work in six shifts around the clock. The job will take until the end of 2014. And that is with no glitches.

But the work at reactor four is only the start. Once the fuel is removed to a safer place, workers will turn their attention to a further 1,573 fuel rod assemblies held in similar pools in the buildings for reactors one, two and three. All were running when the tsunami struck; all suffered meltdowns. The radiation in these buildings is still intense, and access inside is limited.

Though delicate and painstaking, retrieving the fuel rod assemblies from the pools is not the toughest job the workers face. More challenging by far will be digging out the molten cores in the reactors themselves. Some of the fuel burned through its primary containment and is now mixed with cladding, steel and concrete. The mixture will have to be broken up, sealed in steel containers and moved to a nuclear waste storage site. That work will not start until some time after 2020.

To fully decommission Fukushima Daiichi might take 40 years and no one expects a cakewalk. Independent researchers point to the litany of mishaps that has blighted the cleanup. They doubt the plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) is up to the task, and want a global team of experts to take over. Even high-level advisers signed up by Tepco describe the decommissioning project as an "unprecedented" challenge. At stake is Tepco's reputation, the health and livelihoods of local communities, and the future direction of the industry worldwide.

An IAEA inspection of the damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: Iaea/AFP/Getty Images

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"With the sheer number of things that are going wrong, they should be more openly bringing in help," says Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, who has analysed seawater for radiation directly offshore from Fukushima. "Tepco is a nuclear power producer, not a cleanup operation. There are people with expertise in decommissioning reactors, and they need to be brought in whether they are Japanese, European or American. Every time they have a problem, they come up with a solution that takes a long time to bring in, and then doesn't even solve the problem. "

Tepco does have international advisers. In the wake of criticisms over its handling of the crisis, the company set up an independent Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee. The committee is led by Dale Klein, former chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). His deputy is Lady Barbara Judge, former head of the UK Atomic Energy Authority. They do not underestimate the long job ahead: this is make or break time for Tepco.

Who should the public trust? In nuclear issues it can be hard to know. The engineers with most experience, those best placed to make a dangerous site safe, are industry insiders. Nuclear is their livelihood. But who does not have biases? Are anti-nuclear activists better qualified, more honest? Are academics more independent? University staff who work on nuclear technology are often funded by, or have close links to the industry. Perceived biases can be just as harmful to trust as real ones.

John Large, a UK-based nuclear consultant, says Tepco needs more outside help to decommission the plant. He wants the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to arrange for a team of engineers with hands-on experience to assess the site, and come up with a fresh plan of action. But he concedes there are problems with the idea. Industry engineers will defend the industry, he says. "They need to be told: 'Forget the fact that you design these reactors, right now we need your expertise.'"

Tepco has planned heavily to reduce the danger of another high-profile mishap while it removes fuel from the storage pool at unit four. Engineers have beefed up the cranes that will move the fuel. If a fuel assembly jams in its rack, the crane should stop pulling immediately, to reduce the risk of breakage. A second crane that lifts the cask is designed to hold its load even if power is lost. All these will help. A dropped nuclear fuel assembly will not go critical, but more radiation might escape. That may not be dangerous beyond the site, but it could be the final straw for Tepco's reputation.

Workers on a crane for a huge container that will transport fuel rods. Photograph: Tomohiro Ohsumi/AP

"We haven't had a problem of this magnitude before in decommissioning," says Lady Judge. "When you're dealing with decommissioning a reactor where there's been an accident you have to respond to difficulties. When you're dealing with decommissioning a reactor that's reached the end of its productive life, you are being proactive and you can do it in a much more slow and methodical manner."

Good news is hard to find around Fukushima. In the earliest days of the crisis, a plume of radioactive material blew northwest from the site and settled as a teardrop scar reaching more than 30km across the land. From the coastline, through the towns of Okuma, Futaba and Namie, are huge patches of ground where the additional annual dose of radiation is more than 50 millisieverts. Natural background radiation, from cosmic rays and sources in the air and rock, reaches 2 to 3 millisieverts per year.

A preliminary IAEA report in October on efforts to clean up the contaminated land was full of praise for the remediation work so far, and made a handful of gentle suggestions for improvement. Yet the work is far behind schedule in seven of 11 selected towns and villages; the deadline of March 2014 is now unachievable. This month, officials in Japan admitted for the first time that thousands of evacuees from the worst affected areas may never return home. The governing Liberal Democratic party says a more realistic approach is needed: it wants compensation for the 160,000 people displaced by the radioactive leak, so they can rebuild their lives elsewhere.

Up on the cliff overlooking the Fukushima plant is a bleak reminder of an ongoing battle at the site. This strip of land was once filled with trees, a place for workers to go walking. Tepco has cut the trees down now, to make room for 1,000 huge metal storage tanks. They hold more than 360,000 tonnes of radioactive water, enough to fill 140 Olympic swimming pools. The volume rises every day. Over the next three years, Tepco wants to add storage for another 270,000 tonnes of radioactive wastewater. Ultimately, the water must be returned to the Pacific. There is nowhere else for it to go.

The steady accumulation of contaminated water is in part down to geology. The three reactors that were running when the tsunami struck are kept cool by flushing them with 400 tonnes of water each day. The process leaves the cooling water laced with radioactive contamination. But Fukushima sits at the bottom of a hill, on land with a high water table. Hundreds of tonnes of water drain down the hill every day, quietly beneath the surface. When this subterranean flow reaches the power plant, it enters the cracked reactor buildings and mixes with the contaminated cooling water. Much is pumped out and passed through a filter made with zeolite clay, which removes dangerous caesium isotopes. But the other radioactive substances remain. This water, around 300 tonnes a day, is pumped into the storage tanks up on the hill.

Some scientists questioned from the start Tepco's decision to store contaminated water. Another earthquake could rupture the tanks and see another major radioactive release from the site, they feared. So far, Tepco has been spared that particular disaster, but the concerns are still justified. Smaller accidents have been rife. In August, workers discovered that 300 tonnes of radioactive water had leaked from one of the tanks. The radiation emanating from the puddle left on the ground was enough to give a bystander the industry's five-year maximum permissible dose in just one hour. In October, half a tonne of contaminated water spilled on to the ground and may have drained to the sea, when tanks overflowed with rainwater.

"It's clearly something they need to get a handle on," Allison Macfarlane, chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, told the Guardian. "Water is a big issue for them, but they've also got to keep the reactor cores cool, and they've got to clean it up."

Tepco has taken on a US consultant, Lake Barrett, who led the NRC's cleanup of Three Mile Island, the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the nation's history. "It's certainly confidence-shaking to hear about spills and inadvertent releases from the plant. Even though the radioactivity levels are quite small, the public certainly don't have trust and confidence in Tepco's ability to do the more important things like the defuelling, and that is a problem for them," he says.


Link to video: Fukushima nuclear rods' removal begins
In a November report, Tepco said it had set up 15 specialised teams to replace old bolt-fastened tanks with welded ones, install water level gauges, and up the number of patrols that inspect the tanks for leaks. While two thirds of the storage tanks are welded steel vessels, more than 300 are makeshift, added in haste to increase capacity at the site. They are made from steel sheets that are bolted together and sealed with plastic packing.

Water stored in the tanks is contaminated with a host of radioactive substances. One of the most troubling is strontium-90, which mimics calcium when it gets into the body. The substance concentrates in bones, so even low levels in the environment can build up over time and become harmful. When released into the ocean, strontium works its way into fish bones, which can make catches unfit for consumption. The hazard will last a long time: strontium's radioactivity takes 30 years to fall by half.

Tepco is trying to decontaminate the water with an "advanced liquid processing system" (Alps). In principle, the technology can strip all radioactive substances from the water, except tritium, one of the less dangerous radioactive substances, which was spread widely through the environment by nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s and 1960s. Tepco claims the system will ultimately decontaminate more than 500 tonnes of water a day. But that may be optimistic. The equipment has suffered multiple failures. In the latest setback on Sunday, an ALPS unit was shut down when a pipe began to leak acid. Workers wrapped a vinyl bag around the joint to stem the flow while Tepco investigates.

A nuclear fuel rod being lifted from a pool in reactor four. Photograph: TEPCO / HANDOUT/EPA

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Even at a rate of 500 tonnes a day, cleaning the stored water will take many years. But Tepco must get Alps up and running. The company then needs to arrange disposal of the treated water, and the radioactive material filtered out by the system. The radioactive waste will go into containers and be sent for long-term storage. The tritium-laced water will be released into the Pacific, but Tepco has yet to get public support for the move.

"The problem hasn't gone away," says Macfarlane. "The water is cleaner, but you still end up with tritium in there, so they're going to have some tough decisions about what to do."

Fukushima is the first nuclear accident to release large amounts of radioactive material directly into the ocean. Radiation levels surged in seawater after the tsunami struck, with concentrations of caesium-137 recorded at 60 million becquerels per cubic metre near the plant. The nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima released 89 trillion becquerels of caesium-137. The levels in the waters off Fukushima fell sharply though, as the caesium dissolved and dispersed on the ocean's currents.

Tepco estimates that around 300 tonnes of contaminated groundwater still flow into the Pacific each day. The levels of radioactivity are small compared with the releases in 2011. Buesseler has measured contamination in water, fish and other organisms from a ship off the coast of Fukushima since the accident unfurled. He is not worried about the immediate health risk, but says fish and other marine life will concentrate radioactive substances, making them unsuitable for consumption for years. "We're not talking about levels that cause direct harm when I'm one kilometre offshore," says Buesseler. "But through the uptake into the seafood and fisheries, you end up having to keep those closed, and that's a billion dollar industry and a cultural loss for Japan."

Buesseler is critical of what he sees as false reassurances from the Japanese government. "They have said some silly things, that it's largely under control. That doesn't really mean anything when you are out on a ship and you are seeing elevated levels of these isotopes. 'Under control' is not a good phrase for the situation right now," he says.

Tepco's latest plan to stem the flow of radioactive groundwater into the ocean is to solidify the soil around the site to form an impermeable "icewall". This should divert groundwater around the site, and stop it mixing with contaminated cooling water. The project will not be cheap. The Japanese government has pledged £300m to help build the barrier, insisting that the danger of leaks and spills make the wall essential. Ice wall technology has been effective in the construction and mining industries, but has never been tried on the scale planned at Fukushima. Lake Barrett, the US consultant brought in by Tepco, is sceptical of the plan. "I don't think it'll make that big a difference. It's several hundred million dollars, and some of that might be better spent on an integrated water plan," he says.

Even if the ice wall works, it could cause fresh problems. Groundwater flowing out to the ocean keeps seawater from seeping inland at Fukushima. Block that flow, or divert it, and saltwater is sure to encroach. Normally, this would not be a problem. But the soil around Fukushima is laden with radioactive caesium. The substance binds to clay in freshwater conditions, but crucially is released again by saltwater.

"If you stop the fresh water flowing out, that would very likely cause the caesium in the ground to be released. You then have a pulse, of what is currently in some way safely buried, going back into the ocean," says Buesseler. "It is certainly something they should think about."

More mishaps are inevitable at Fukushima. The plant is wrecked and decommissioning will take decades of arduous, complex work. In Japan and in other countries, the crisis has already dented public confidence in nuclear power. That has harmed their economies, says Judge.

"Many countries, not just Japan, overreacted to Fukushima and they are suffering. In Germany they are buying gas from Russia, they're buying nuclear energy from France. The Poles are planning, right on the German border, a nuclear power plant to service the German market. They're burning coal, which is really amazing, because their emissions are also going up. So what was a political decision has turned out to be detrimental to the entire economy and particularly to the people," she says.

The media have not helped. "Two years ago there was a huge earthquake and tsunami that killed around 20,000 people. But every day when I read the paper, it said, 'nuclear disaster, nuclear disaster, nuclear disaster'. In actual fact, not one person has died of radiation, nor is anyone likely to.

"The straight story is the Japanese didn't have a nuclear response plan. There were a lot of human errors during what happened at Fukushima. It was old technology, badly maintained, and the regulator was not respected. Those are the facts. They have to be faced and dealt with."

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/03/fukushima-daiichi-tsunami-nuclear-cleanup-japan

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[neverbreak]

now there is evidence that thyroid cancer in kids in the fukushima prefecture is stemmin from the radiation leak from the plant. on top of that, us sailors on board the uss reagan have been diagnosed with a host of medical conditions, includin various cancers.

Fukushima's cancer epidemic: the reality revealed

John Ward

25th December 2013




USS Reagan & Fukushima cancer levels are miles above comparative levels, according to John Ward. Slowly, the world is waking up to the realities of Japan's nuclear catastrophe: this disaster is real.

The media blackout surrounding the Japanese nuclear power plant is slowly imploding.
We have seen strong evidence of poor build quality in the original General Electric construction at Fukushima. We have seen example after example of covered up seriousness and urgency by both Tepco the plant owners, and the Tokyo government keen to keep its ownership of the 2020 Olympic Games.

Now evidence is coming through to flatly contradict Establishment reassurances about cancer levels both among Fukushima residents, and on board USS Ronald Reagan - the US aircraft carrier that sailed offshore from Fukushima after the 2011 tsunami to bring aid and relief to a stricken population.

Before we get going, the good news is that California-based lawyer Charles Bonner (see below) has confirmed to me that he is still heavily involved in the case of 70+ US navy personnel currently attempting to get redress for various illnesses that have all the hallmarks of radiation sickness.

I hope to be able to interview him at some stage over the holidays, but in the meantime there have been three major debunking developments in relation to the Establishment's "explanations" of what the truth is about the USS Reagan's crew, and the link between rapid cancer development (RCD) and the Fukushima incident.

Debunk 1: "These levels of incidence are what you would expect in a ship's complement of 5,500."

Not so...or indeed anywhere near it. I'm indebted to veteran Slogger Tig for pointing out that the lifetime prevalence of testicular cancer in US men is 0.4% ... and 5.5 per 100,000 with the median age at 33.

So in each group of 100 navy men you would expect 0.0055 of them to get testicular cancer anyway. Aged 18-25, somewhat less. You'd need a group of 20,000 navy male personnel to even get 1 case of TC via 'natural' occurrence.

The USS Ronald Reagan has 5,500 crew, and nowhere near all of them are male. There are in excess of 20 cases of testes ccancer thus far ... and counting.

Debunk 2: "Why aren't the Fukushima locals suffering in the same way?"

They are.

The media blackout surrounding the Japanese nuclear power plant is slowly imploding. Fifty-nine young people in Fukushima prefecture have been diagnosed with or are suspected of having thyroid cancer.

Notably, all of newly diagnosed were younger than 18 at the time of the nuclear meltdown in the area in March 2011. They were identified in tests by the prefectural government, which had covered 239,000 people by the end of September.

Toshihide Tsuda, a professor of epidemiology at Okayama University has called upon the government to prepare for a possible increase in cases in the future. Japan's Asahi Shimbun quoted him as saying:

"The rate at which children in Fukushima prefecture have developed thyroid cancer can be called frequent, because it is several times to several tens of times higher."

He's not wrong. Fukushima cancer incidence compared to registration statistics throughout Japan from 1975 to 2008 showed an annual average of five to 11 people in their late teens to early 20s developing cancer for every 1 million people in Japan as a whole.

In Fukushima, there 59 cases out of 238,000 in three years.

Debunk 3: "Cancers don't develop that quickly after radiation exposure."

Of all the expert 'opinions', the unscientific nature of this one baffles me - but is so symptomatic of contemporary bollocks about 'settled science'. We have never before seen - not even at Chernobyl - radioactive exposure like this in so many ways at such close quarters.

Says a senior medical San Francisco Slogger source:

"Everything that's come out of Fukushima and Washington thus far has been bullsh*t. The idea of cancer development rates being an accepted constant like some scientific norm is deliberately misleading ... as every single statement from those concerned to cover up this disaster has been.

"This is new territory in that there has been atmospheric exposure, waterborne carriage, and loss of control on a hitherto unexperienced scale. The US government should stop treating its citizens like children, and start giving everyone on the West Coast the real heads-up on the situation."

Because it's never happened before doesn't mean it can't ... as we're about to find out when globalist neoliberalism finally comes apart.

I'm still waiting for a response from US Navy stats ... four days on, they have yet to acknowledge my query ... which, in the end, I had to route through another pc. I'll keep you posted on Charles Bonner's response: he has asked me to call him back, and I will.

Not a nice way to end the run-up to Christmas, but I think there are several signs - and real hope - that in the very best traditions of the Saviour so many wish to honour tomorrow, the ultimate truth will emerge, and justice will be done.

I do wish you all a great season. Stay tuned.





Background on the case being brought by Charles Bonner on behalf of the USS Ronald Reagan plaintiffs.

Charles Bonner is leading a class action lawsuit against TEPCO, the regulator/owner of the Fukushima nuclear energy plant.

He's unlikely to lose it, because he represents 75 sailors who came down with a host of medical problems, including cancers and leukemias, all kinds of gynaecological problems, and tumors on the brain.

These service men and women are mainly young people in their early to mid twenties, and no one in their family had ever any of these kinds of illnesses before. Just since Bonner took the case, another 21 sailors have begun to show the same dire symptoms ... of radiation sickness.

Their common link? They were all serving on board USS Ronald Reagan during a brief visit to the waters around Fukushima three years ago. As the Ronald Reagan desalinates all its water from the sea for drinking, bathing and other cleaning purposes, all the sailors were multiply exposed to radiation from the Fukushima accident.

Calmed by the bollocks being put out about how "harmless" the radiation leakage was, these 75 service men and women now face death.

I've just been to eighteen internet sites. I have verified who Bonner is, checked the case credentials ("Cooper et al v. Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. et. al. case number 3:2013cv00773, filed with the United States District Court for the Southern District of California") - and confirmed the case's existence with Bonner's law firm.

This is not left-of-centre urban myth: this is the best indication so far, in my view, of just how serious the Fukushima disaster is going to be.

But not a single mainstream medium I can find within the US, UK or European mainstream has gone near it.

http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_a...mas_cancer_epidemic_the_reality_revealed.html

eventually the full brevity of the situation is gonna make it out into the media spotlight n it's not gonna be pretty what's revealed. as a species, we've really fucked up with this n we're gonna be feelin the consequences from this disaster for many generations to come. anyone who's still pro-nuclear has gotta be mad imho.

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[ZONER]

Wonder if HAWAII is taking daily readings ?

 

[PButter]

As I understand it someone needs to take control and get the manpower ready to seal up the whole place. That was the only option for Chernobyl. They amassed something like 600000 people that could suit up and go in and work for one hour each(or whatever it was before they got poisoned). They are erecting a sarcophagus around Chernobyl now. Slowly they got it bottled up and my understanding is that something along those lines needs to be done in Japan. Problem is no one there is willing to admit how much of a problem it is. In all likelihood, it has already dumped enough radiation to destroy the pacific and whatever wildlife was left in the pacific before this fucking mess. This event, more than 9-11, more than the illegal, murderous wars 911 pushed into, kind of defines how little hope there is for this (worldwide) society.

Fuck the media too. If we had real coverage and investigations of these crimes I think the majority would act and make headway.

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[kolah]

There's really no place to run....and how many more nuke plants around the globe?

radiation damage to living creatures?...much like taking cancer treatments, your hair falls out, sick to your stomach, barfing, no appetite and later some heavy internal bleeding. Not a fun way to leave your earth-suit.

Maybe magical aliens will save us. Bring in the Foo-Fighters. :)

In the meantime I'll enjoy the good times. :)

 

[TheCoolestMan]

"A new study finds that radioactive Iodine from Fukushima has caused a significant increase in hypothyroidism among babies in California, 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean."

http://www.theecologist.org/News/ne...aged_thyroid_glands_of_california_babies.html

Holy Shit ! I Just hope it's BS, but seems like is not.
The way the system is silent about all this makes u wonder...

 

[squiggly]

100-150 CPM is pretty normal. Exposure is in microsieverts at that level, you're talking 0.000001 sieverts or on that scale.

Also it is normal to observe higher levels of radiation in a high humidity area than in lower humidity area.

Most components of air are basically inert. The same cannot be said for the sea, even water itself has higher reactivity and chance to produce ionizing radiation. Water even has the ability to autoionize (although the equilibrium constant is very small--around 1x10-14). However when you multiply that by avogadro's number and look at how much a mole of water vapor weighs, it's easy to see where an increase in ionizing radiation might come from.

In other words:

Move along, nothing to see here.

 

[kolah]

wasn't the so-called safe limit just raised?

edit: here ya go (and more):

 

[fractal]

The USS Ronald Reagan which was in the area immediately after 3/11 is now having sailors by the hundreds filing suit claiming they were exposed to radiation in desalinated seawater while in the area.

Then, Alaska Airlines has been having flight attendants coming down with rashes, headaches, hair falling out, symptoms of radiation exposure. AA is blaming it on their UNIFORMS lol, which they started using in early 2011. They would have been exposed to fuku fallout on their seattle - alaska flights.

I've said my peace on Fukushima but those two stories are news I recently read. Y'all know what I think so no use in repeating it. I think we should just try and enjoy what time we have left.

 

[monkeymun]

I'm just glad I don't live in Japan. Imagine how the Japanese must be feeling about this at the moment. They'd be freaking out!