BRAWM - Question re: Strontium 90 sampling generally and ...
I have found only ONE set of data since Fukushima on the EPA site RADNET for Strontium 90 which is more than two weeks old and covers only two towns in California (two testing stations) when they detected nothing.
Old EPA reports do show strontium 90 all over the place.
WHY does UC Berkeley not GET something to measure Strontium 90? Is it EXPENSIVE to do so? Is it prohibitively complicated?
I mean, why is there so LITTLE info on Strontium? Think it might be because it is ALREADY everywhere in the environment from the 100 plus nukes which are allowed to emit radioactive particulates and liquids into our air and water and soil?
PLEASE Brawn can you maybe explain why it is probably happening that we are seeing almost NO samples, tests, or discussions of Stronium 90. It is exceptionally harmful and, like cesium, has a half life of some 28 years. Thing is, it gets into our bones and teeth as well as organs because it is a Calcium analogue (as Cesium is a potassium analong, as I underdstand it) and goes to our hearts and organs and blood but it actually gets "locked in" to our bones and gets in our marrow and then blood and can persist in our bodies our whole lives doing its damage to our dna and cells and organs.
So can someone at BRAWM give us all a little primer on Strontium on why it doesn't even seem to be on anyones radar? Is it too heavy to fly in the jet stream from Fukushima to Berkeley. Is it not a likely product of the problems there?
What?
The silence on Strontium 90 by the EPA, by BRAWM, by the media, by the TEPKO, by Japan, by almost EVERYONE is DEAFENING.
So I turn to you folks for some analysis of why Strontium is not :in the picture" . Is it not considered significant or is the truth too ugly for us to know.
Seems strontium would be one of the FIRST things we need to be testing for and looking at.
THX for considering my concerns and giving a kinda comprehensive and thorough response. All I hear about the Strontium is crickets.
Please explain challenges in testing for Strontium 90
I read the response on another thread about BRAWM's inability to test for Strontium 90 and was wondering if anything could be done to facilitate/support efforts or is just impossible regardless of funding (and if so why)?
Also does the presence or absence of any of the other isotopes that are being tested tell us anything definitive (or highly suggestive) about the presence of Strontium?
Thank you
Sounds like this sort of enhancement to UCBNE's lab abilities...
...Would have been JUST THE THING to come under some "shovel-ready" stimulus package or other. Would have been nice if we'd had some massive infusion of cash (debt) into all manner of agencies, institutions, Governmental departments, and other projects in the last couple of years... Oh.
But those bridges to nowhere, now, THOSE are justifiable uses of money (debt)!
Sorry -- in a bit of a snit tonight. Like Howard Beale in "Network", I've run out of bulls---, folks.
Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
RichardFCromackJr@gmail.com
Congrats on getting a shout at on the Frobes Blog
still hoping I get some response to my question here.
why is it so difficult to get ANYONE to provide testing for strontium 90. EPA did THREE tests at two sites more than two weeks ago, Shameful!
The Forbes blog, though, is awesome and giving props to Rick and to the BRAWM team! Impressive! Forbes!
Thanks... I wish none of this were happening, though. [nt]
Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
RichardFCromackJr@gmail.com
As someone wrote in an
As someone wrote in an eariler thread about this topic....what's your rush, we have a 100 years to test for Stronium!