High levels of strontium detected at Fukushima
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/01_h01.html
High levels of strontium detected at Fukushima
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it has detected high levels of a radioactive substance that tends to accumulate in human bones.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says it took soil samples on May 9th at 3 locations about 500 meters from the No.1 and No.2 reactors and analyzed them.
The utility detected up to 480 becquerels of radioactive strontium 90 per kilogram of soil. That's about 100 times higher than the maximum reading recorded in Fukushima Prefecture following atmospheric nuclear tests carried out by foreign countries during the Cold War era.
TEPCO reported detecting 2,800 becquerels of strontium 89 per kilogram of soil at the same location.
This is the second time since April that radioactive strontium has been found inside the plant compound.
The substance was also detected in soil and plants more than 30 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear power station in March.
When people inhale radioactive strontium, it accumulates in bones. Scientists say that strontium could cause cancer.
Tokyo Electric Power says it believes that radioactive strontium was released from the damaged plant and it will continue to monitor radiation levels.
An expert on radioactive substances says he thinks radioactive strontium may continue to be detected around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. But he says the strontium levels that might be detected in soil will be far lower than those of the radioactive cesium released in the accident by a factor of several thousand.
Yoshihiro Ikeuchi of the Japan Chemical Analysis Center says strontium tends to accumulate in bones, like calcium. But he also says its levels in the air are thought to be lower than those for soil and even if people inhale the substance, no health problems will be caused by such internal exposure to radiation.
Wednesday, June 01, 2011 02:59 +0900 (JST)
With a half life of around
With a half life of around 50 days it would be a bit strange for Strontium-89 not to be detected on the same spots where it was detected back in April.?The same goes for Strontium-90, of course.
Also, it seems they tested the soil for Strontium-90 in some locations WITHIN the 10 Km radius, with results of 68 Bq/Kg (Okuma-machi 2km away from the plant) and between 2.5-12 Bq/Kg in other 3 locations.
http://www.asahi.com/special/10005/TKY201105310743.html [Japanese]
Also, regarding the measurements taken in mid-march OUTSIDE the 30 Km radius, the ratio of Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 seems to be around 700-2,000 to 1.
http://www.mext.go.jp/component/english/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2011/04/29...
Considering they had already detected radioactive Cesium in the order of tens or even hundreds of thousands Bq/Kg in the most contaminated areas of Fukushima prefecture, and assuming the ratio of Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 remains the same whatever the distance, it seems they will keep finding it as long as they keep testing.
http://www.mext.go.jp/component/english/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2011/05/31...
other stuff found too...
They also found Uranium, and they say that the plutonium they found is from former testing:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/05/radioactive-strontium-from-soil-withi...
Radiostrontium also found in seawater
NHK English:
"TEPCO said it found radioactive strontium in seawater samples taken at 4 locations off Fukushima Prefecture on May 9th, but the levels were all below the national limit. Radioactive strontium is produced during the nuclear fission of uranium. It was found in seawater off Fukushima in April. TEPCO said the substance probably came from the damaged plant. The utility also said the detected levels were very low, but it will continue to monitor the seawater."
Wednesday, June 01
Great. It will definitely travel to the US in the water and get into the seafood. With a half life of 29 years it will be here for a long time (like 300 years) and is a definite killer.
I KNEW there was strontium in the plumes! I just can't PROVE it that it made it HERE yet. But I would bet that it did.
This sucks. "very low levels" SURE.
Plutonium?
Plutonium who tests for that no 3 blew sky high.
I call Bulls*t
"...levels in the air are thought to be lower than those for soil and even if people inhale the substance, no health problems will be caused by such internal exposure to radiation"
"The substance was also detected in soil and plants more than 30 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear power station in March."
"When people inhale radioactive strontium, it accumulates in bones. Scientists say that strontium could cause cancer"
I want to know if its here. It was in plants and soil 30 miles from the Fukushima plant. It was in milk in Hilo Hawaii.
Nobody is testing for it here. Yet it was definitely spewed out in the initial blasts. The experts there say "no health problems if inhaled" yet it is in the food and soil and "could cause cancer".
Once again - this is a crime against humanity. The cioverup is also a crime against humanity. I have seen NO testing for it in Japanese food reported. It is probably here too in milk, strawberries, spinach, imho. Yet not even BRAWM is looking for it.
This is just more evidence that the industry and government lies, covers up and ultimately people will die from cancers and other diseases because of the exposure and the coverup of the exposures. Certainly in Japan and probably globally.
Just underscores how inept the people managing this is. The media info is totally contradictory, incomplete, and confusing which obfuscates the risk and the certainty of harm.
www.radiation.org has TONS of research on strontium 90 and the risks of exposure from nuclear power "leaks".
Strontium was tested for early on
It was tested on 3/11. Why, I don't know. It couldn't have been
in the US at that time. And then on 3/18, which is when the "plume"
reached the US west coast. Both results were "ND". This was only
tested for in S. Calif though.
http://www.epa.gov/japan2011/docs/rert/radnet-cart-filter-final.pdf