Wakame (sea weed)

In the food chain radioactive particles are taken up by plant life, ingested by animal life and concentrate further as those animals are eaten by larger ones. Over time, the age of the animal corresponds to greater concentrations of toxins and nuclear particles ingested.

Based on an article forwarded to me by the endocrinological society, adults over the age of 40 exposed to I-131 are less vulnerable to thyroid cancer than those under and children such as your daughter are many times more vulnerable than an adult age 25 on up.

My advice: You might want to switch to fresh water source fish (do you fish? (check out www.fishsniffer.com for best spots and tips) and fresh water source items that are good for iodine, however, you must make sure they are pharmaceutical grade since algaes are known to have toxins dangerous to humans unless the manufacturer adheres to pharmaceutical standards. For now, consider switching to iodine supplements from non-oceanic sources if and when they become available. I would stock up on what is available through a good pharmaceutical grade nutritional company such as Now Vitamins or Bronson http://www.bronsonvitamins.com/search/?searchConditions=0&searchPhrase=i... Stock up now because these supplements will have been milled and made into tablets many months prior to Japan's triple disasters. If you've also been giving her Cod liver oil by Twinlab, stock up now for the same reasons. For the next 4 months or so in addition I would do as the French are recommending too: avoid milk, soft cheeses and yoghurts. Instead, purchase the hard aged grating cheeses that are aged 3 months or more and stock up on those measuring them out so that you can provide adequate calcium to your diet. The French have also recommended avoiding fresh produce with large leaves such as lettuces and even cabbages mentioning they ALL can uptake I-131,Cs-137 etc. through their root systems. You can stock up on canned fruits and vegetables as well as frozen, although I would think canned will have been produced many months prior to the frozen batches. To minimize exposure to unwanted radioactive particles by ingestion, the waiting several months before purchasing fresh produce and drinking or consuming dairy products as described makes sense since the cycle of cows and produce growing and being harvested over several months should eliminate much if not all of the newest deposits of Fukushima's radionuclides.

PS: For milk substitutes we use Almond milk since soy is a known thyroid inhibitor, see www.soyonlineservice.co.nz and for butter we've been using smart balance brand for several years.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/27510887/detail.html

Radioactive Seaweed Detected In Puget Sound, But Not Harmful
Richard Thompson
KIRO 7 Eyewitness News South Sound Bureau Chief Twitter | E-mail

Posted: 6:24 pm PDT April 11, 2011
Updated: 7:42 am PDT April 12, 2011

OLYMPIA, Washington -- Radiation leaked from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex in Japan has been detected in seaweed in Puget Sound, but researchers say there's no need for alarm.

KIRO 7 obtained samples of seaweed from Budd Inlet near Olympia two weeks ago. Professor Kris Starosta at Simon Fraser University confirmed the presence of radioactive iodine Monday.

"We have seen iodine 131 in the sample you sent us," he said. "I think it's pretty clear by now this must be iodine 131 from releases from Fukushima."

The confirmation came on the same day Japan raised the crisis level at the plant from 5 to 7, the highest level on the international scale.

"I think it is surprising," Starosta said. "I guess I was assuming it wouln't reach this far, but it did."

The radiation levels found in the seaweed are lower than those detected in Vancouver, B.C., two weeks ago, possibly because the samples came from the beach and not underwater, Starosta said.

Some people we spoke with expressed concern about the radiation, but Starosta said it posed no danger to people.

"The impact so far we see from the releases -- the impact on the west coast of North America -- is really minimal," he said.

To put things in perspective, Starosta said that if you were to eat 2 pounds of dried seaweed with the highest levels of radiation he and his team had detected, it would be the equivalent of getting one dental X-ray.

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-Off my menu: All Seafood! Why? because the oceans have become the prime military and industrial sewer and the last thing I want is to inadvertently ingest enough nuclear material to invite some horrific terminal disease such as leukemia, lymphoma,lung,breast or other cancers known to be more common since 1946...
FYI:
http://swashzone.blogspot.com/2011/04/fukushima-mon-amour.html
Despite the catastrophic scope of last month’s earthquake and tsunami, the people of the Rising Sun consider themselves fortunate in at least one respect. Radioactive clouds of steam and smoke have blown eastward over the Pacific Ocean and away from major population centers in Japan. Yet, millions of gallons of radioactive coolant water were discharged at sea, and it may be years before the impact on ocean ecosystems is fully understood.
Ocean dumping of nuclear waste was banned by international treaty in the 1970s. Of concern to scientists now is not the immediate level of radioactivity but the longer-term consequences. Even minute amounts of radiation have the potential to be absorbed by plants and animals and enter the food chain. As smaller fish are eaten by larger fish, heavy metals and their radioactive counterparts bio-accumulate up the food chain until the ultimate consumer – the human population – is put at maximum risk.
Nuclear waste is a subset of the larger problem of industrial pollution, and Fukushima is merely the latest chapter of a long and appalling saga: Minamata, Love Canal, Bhopal, Deepwater Horizon, Libby Asbestos, Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, and Chernobyl, as the most grotesque examples. Entire ecosystems destroyed for generations, landscapes and seascapes laid waste and barren, dead zones and ghost towns, crippled economies and ruined lives … our world dies by a thousand blows.
To maintain lavish lifestyles, we consume prodigious amounts of energy and pay for it – not just in unit costs per BTU – but in terms of health and human life. In this unholy bargain, we have come to regard consumers and workers as fungibles and expendables, as a necessary sacrifice in exchange for a profligate and reckless economic system gone mad. Yet, incident after incident, and year after year, we continue to place our trust in the infallibility of our technologies and enterprises. It is a pact made with Mephistopheles Inc.
http://socket.kongshem.com/2007/10/farallon-islands-nuclear-waste-dump.html photo of bay with map and short video at site.
The Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Dump
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you may be surprised to learn that "more than 47,800 drums and other containers of low-level radioactive waste were dumped onto the ocean floor west of San Francisco between 1946 and 1970." (Source: The U.S. Geological Survey, a bureau of the Department of the Interior.)
Just 25 to 30 miles offshore from the Golden Gate bridge -- in a marine wildlife sanctuary, no less -- the ocean floor is littered with rusting 55-gallon barrels of radioactive waste. The U.S. Navy shipped this toxic cargo from the Radiological Defense Laboratory at the Hunters Point shipyard in San Francisco and dropped it in the sea near the Farallon Islands -- creating the first and largest offshore nuclear waste dump in the United States. Navy gunners were instructed to shoot holes in the barrels that didn't sink right away.
Nearly 50,000 drums of nuclear waste sounds bad enough, but the ocean floor around the Farallon Islands is host to even more toxic garbage: Namely, the radioactive wreck of a ten-thousand-ton aircraft carrier, used as a nuke target during the 1946 Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests.
Eager to learn what might happen to a warship when an atomic bomb explodes nearby, the U.S. Navy placed the USS Independence within one-half mile of ground zero during the "Able" atomic bomb test of July 1, 1946. This was the first of two atomic bomb tests conducted on the Bikini Atoll as part of Operation Crossroads:
Highly radioactive but still afloat after the blast, the bombed-out hulk was then towed to San Francisco's Hunters Point shipyard for decontamination experiments.
After five years of fruitless sandblasting, the Navy lost interest in the useless wreck. In 1951, the Independence was towed out of the bay and sunk near the Farallon Islands as just another (albeit quite large) chunk of radioactive waste.
The California State Lands Commission shipwreck database pinpoints the exact location of the radioactive shipwreck of the USS Independence as: Latitude 37deg 28'24'N, Longitude 123deg 07'36'W. This interactive map shows the position of those coordinates:
comments:
brigham said...
wow, why did they choose the islands? are there other such sites off the coast?
December 21, 2009 10:49 PM
James Stevens said...
In 1979, I happened to be in the library at Scripps Institute of Oceanography involved in a research project. While there, I ran across a report detailing the dumping of 1,200 barrels of nuclear waste at the Farralons. Similarly to your report above, the barrels were incased in concrete. However, the report diverged from the story above in the following respects. This report concerned the dumping of Plutonium waste from the Hanford, Washington site and which was anything but low-level. It expressed grave concerns about the environmental impact of leakages on the Pacific bioshpere with theoretical scenarios over a period of twenty years, the length of time the report predicted would lead to degradation of the concrete containers. The extreme toxicity of the waste as well the quanitity of it would eventually lead to a major ecological collapse, the report concluded. The information contained therein was in explicit detail with charts of radioactivity levels, salt water dispersion rates, directional sub sea current data indicating likely spread patterns and again, concluded that the eventual effect of the toxicity levels would be the interuption of plankton life cycles over a large geographic scale compromising the ongoing integrity of the entire Pacific biosphere. It ended with the commentary that from an engineering perspective, little or nothing could be done to prevent that collapse which, they concluded, was inevitable.
December 21, 2010 4:55 PM
simon752 said...
I'm originally grew up in Fairfax, Marin county, and not only heard but saw the large amount of Breast Cancer victims within the bay area. Could this be the cause?!?
February 7, 2011 8:35 PM
BigWhiteDog said...
I'm sorry but to tie this to any Marin county cancers is one heck of an irresponsible leap. If such clusters were found in Sonoma, San Fran, Alameda and San Mateo Counties then maybe.
If your premise was correct then there should be corresponding clusters in Farallones researchers, fishermen who frequented the area before it was closed off, and persons living right on the coast.
I'm more interested in the fact that a radioactive ship was being sandblasted at Hunters Point for 5 years. What happened to the sand and other waste and what is/was the health status of those workers.
April 8, 2011 9:35 AM