New air monitoring results from France

BRAWM care to comment?

Submitted by bill (not verified) on Wed, 2011-06-15 09:22.

At first I was concerned that they are still detecting radioiodine.

But I am wondering if these results may be due, in part or totally, due to releases from French reactors.

BRAWM care to comment on these results and the upticks noted as well as the source of these readings?

Bump!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2011-06-15 15:28.

Bump!

No way would that

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2011-06-15 13:42.

No way would that radioiodine be from the reactors in France. Under normal circumstances there are NO emissions from on-stream nuclear reactors.

Except for steam!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2011-06-15 13:43.

Except for steam!

how come their levels are higher than in US

Submitted by Renat (not verified) on Wed, 2011-06-15 13:39.

What surprises me is that their levels for Iodine-131 are higher through entire period than what BRAWN has measured locally. Here is one date just as an example:

April 22
BRAWM: 1.3e-08 Bq/L = 0.013 mBq/m3 (correct conversion?)
France: 0.11 to 0.44 mBq/m3

Can somebody clarify?

Renat

Bill- Last measurable level

Submitted by BC (not verified) on Wed, 2011-06-15 10:42.

Bill-

Last measurable level of I-131 was 4/25, with a trace on 4/30. .

Very glad to see that these guys never did pick up any Am-241.

And, now, how about some info from the EPA???

And to the OP, thanks for the link.

That is not the way I am reading the tables

Submitted by Bill (not verified) on Wed, 2011-06-15 10:50.

It look slike they found all of that and some in June.

Can you tell me where I am misreading the table?

And they found levels of Americium too.

Maybe there is something that I cannot translate here in the notes but it does not look that great to me however given the pollution in France from the nukes as reported by Forbes it could be THEIR contamination.

Link to the Forbes

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2011-06-15 13:47.

Link to the Forbes article?

I suspect they've simply employed more sensitive equipment, testing more radioiodine than BRAWM simply as a virtue of that. France is the elite of the elite in the game of peaceful nuclear energy.

Bill- I believe that the

Submitted by BC (not verified) on Wed, 2011-06-15 12:23.

Bill-

I believe that the numbers on the right of the < symbol are the minimum detectable amounts. For example, if you look at the last measurement on page 3, the 06/06/2011 sample, the I-131 is <.09, which is to say that none was detected above the minimum detectable amount og .09mBq/m3.

All Americium levels show below MDA - ie, it was never detected with certainty.

Level7 has global

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2011-06-15 10:53.

Level7 has global implications don't forget that.