Any thing being tested for Fukushima daiichi radiation?
is your lab shut is your equipment broken? Or are you simply keeping your testing results out of public domain ?i cant imagine your not testing and your detectors are sitting there collecting dust .please explain situation mark ,thanks.
FOOD CONTAMINATION UPDATE /ocean bottom fish
(Japan)FOOD CONTAMINATION UPDATE
Cesium contamination in food appears to be on wane
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120925i1.html
Why is cesium still high in bottom fish?
This is hard to determine. Unlike the situation on land, where experts say they have a good idea how radioactive material goes through the food chain, its movement in marine produce is not yet understood.
For the most part, contamination of fish that live near the surface and at medium depths, like "konago" (sand lance), "mekajiki" (swordfish) and "masaba" (chub mackerel), has declined along with the dropping levels of cesium in the waters they inhabit, according to Fisheries Agency data.
But bottom fish, such as "hirame" (flounder) caught off Fukushima, Ibaraki, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, have been found with too much cesium. The same with "madara" (cod) caught off Aomori Prefecture — some 400 km north of the crippled power plant.
"Suzuki," or sea bass, has also been found above the government limit.
Takashi Ishimaru, a professor of ocean sciences at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, said bottom fish are apparently being contaminated by benthos, the tiny organism they eat. When waste and plankton carcasses tainted with radiation sink to the seabed, they are eaten by the bottom-feeding organisms, which in turn are eaten by bottom fish, he said.
Keeping a close watch: Officials on Sept. 12 check bags of rice for radiation in the town of Aizubange, Fukushima Prefecture. The circle on the screen indicates that no radioactive materials were detected. KYODO
Ishimaru said it will take "much, much more time" before all fish near the coast of Fukushima are free of contamination.
Commercial fishing near Fukushima Prefecture has been voluntarily banned since March, but it resumed in June with two types of octopus and one kind of shellfish. Seven more species followed in September. They are "kegani" (hairy crab), "kichiji" (marbled rockfish), three types of shellfish — "chijimiezobora," "ezoboramodoki" and "nagabai" — and two types of squid named "surumeika" and "yariika." Cesium accumulates far less in these mollusks, experts say.
We have a few samples that
We have a few samples that were tested during the summer that I have been meaning to post. They will be up soon.
At this point we are only doing occasional testing since we have had so many non-detects.
Mark [BRAWM Team Member]
Class, repeat after me: Bi-O-Ac-Cu-Mu-La-Tion
Like the radioactive wild boars of Germany, we're NOT out of the woods yet - see
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/a-quarter-century-after-ch...
Professor Farnsworth
Allow me...
Due to budget constraints resulting from numerous foreign military adventures and an omnipresent state surveillance machine, all BRAWM can afford is for some unlucky post-grad to argue on this forum that there is no need to do any testing, since crony radiation is harmless. Does that about cover it?
Professor Farnsworth
Clever turn of phrase
Farnsworth,
You have captured the GLOBAL spirit of this dangerous atomic beast. Your conclusions follow the warnings of Dwight David Eisenhower in his farewell Military Industrial Complex warning to the nation. We the people, should bring this wild beast under control.
BRAWM has done more good than most. Far more, by my lights.
Generally speaking, it takes a lot of heros and a swarm of reluctant soldiers to win a battle. Sometimes, a very few, play a decisive role. A nail, horse, rider, message ... kingdom ...
You never know, until you try.
Too fine a point
Farnsworth,
Perhaps that is putting too fine a point on the BRAWM level of involvement and responsibility. A department at a university hardly bears responsibility for all the actions of the USA. So, the history department at West Point does not bear responsibiity for military actions in the various American Indian war campaigns of the 19th century.
The tattered remains of congress, the courts and the executive branch DO bear some responsibility for relatively recent events, though not ancient events. This is particularly true, due to their SWORN OATH which appears to be observed, primarily in the breach thereof.
So also the press (collectively) and obstructionist industries again (collectively). So I do personally, hold the Board of Directors and Executive Staff of the major industry players to bear a PERSONAL responsibility for industry actions. This is based on the observation, that many such actions are collusive in nature.
IMHO