WHEN will Berkeley post new results for rainwater, tapwater, milk, produce?

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2011-04-05 11:03

As the rain from the west coast is coming here I need to know ASAP the results to make intelligent decisions for my family.

Thanks, please post whatever results you have ASAP.

The air amounts are okay and appreciated but what really matters is how much is accumulating in food, milk, water etc.

You seem to be the only really good source and it is really really importnast to know when and if you will be getting these results to us and when.

Or if not, let us know.

‹ Seattle Times Article 4/4/11 Dumping of radioactive water into the Pacific ›

Please let the UCB people do

Submitted by Jack (not verified) on Tue, 2011-04-05 13:29.

Please let the UCB people do their work on their time without placing demands on them getting info to us. Nobody is forcing them to do this for us, it is a great service that they have basically decided to do of their own accord. Let us not abuse them or this site...

Thanks ... and tap water, milk, stream too?

Submitted by bill (not verified) on Tue, 2011-04-05 14:28.

Milk is an important one for me as I have kids. But the produce too is important.

I noticed an uptick on the graph 4/4 in the air samples which concerns me (it isn't relfected in the chart below, though) , but I guess if there is no rain not much other than dry particulates are reaching plants, grass etc, right?

Please look for 04-04-2011

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2011-04-05 14:51.

Please look for 04-04-2011 in the graphs (for I-131, Te and cs). I think those were the data for ysy (04/04)? these (elevated from 04/03) numbers are not presented in the tables beneath the graphs though.

Do you use gnuplot for the

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2011-04-05 18:28.

Do you use gnuplot for the graphs?

Thank You for your very fine work. It's so inspiring to see what you modern scientists can do today.

water, milk, swimming pool, thyroid and iodine

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2011-04-05 16:25.

It would be helpful to have more recent tests on milk and water from different sources. I would also love to know the impact of the inches of rain had on my swimming pool at the peak of the initial plume.

Considering one treatment for thyroid cancer is to starve the thyroid and then feed it radioactive iodine, is it fair to compare an airplane flight where the entire body is exposed to cosmic radiation to radioactive iodine that is concentrated in the thyroid. Also, shouldn't the reader know that the effects, based on scientific studies, vary considerably from in the womb until 18 years of age, decreasing significantly after age 40.

Isn't it also important to point out the adequate dietary intake of iodine given Americans are estimated to receive only about 1/2 of the RDA and that most salt in processed food as well as sea salt do not contain iodine?

Age and iodine deficiency have been identified as contributory factors to the increased incidence of thyroid cancer following Chernobyl.

Thanks...

Submitted by WH (not verified) on Tue, 2011-04-05 18:32.

for looking into it Joseph!

WH