US Receiving Steady Flow Of Deadly Radioactive Particulates From Japan
Fox News has story, here is the link:
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/06/29/radiation-in-our-food/
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Fox News has story, here is the link:
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/06/29/radiation-in-our-food/
Fallout from major releases in March, not continuing releases
- Continued detection does not necessarily mean continued releases
The author gives the impression that what is being detected in California is exactly what has emerged from Fukushima 7 days before. Here are examples of this, where the present continuous tense is used:
- Detection of Iodine-131 did not mean releases were coming straight from Japan
- Levels in milk started to be detected in about one week, not one month, and the levels peaked and have decreased to undetectable levels or levels just above detectability.
Mark [BRAWM Team Member]As we've pointed out recently, our current minimum detectable levels for air samples are about 1,000 times lower than our highest detections in late March. Our last rain sample on 5/16 showed no isotopes to very low limits. However, there have been news stories about workers opening up areas at the plant and releasing quantities of radiation, even in some case "billions of Becquerels." How is it that the plant is not yet contained, yet we in BRAWM are not detecting anything?
The initial releases in March ejected a large amount of radioactive fission products into the atmosphere, currently estimated at 770,000 TeraBecquerels (7.7×1017 Bq). As we know from the plume forecasts, a large release can be carried by air currents and disperse all across the globe, primarily in the Northern Hemisphere. The radioactive isotopes disappear from the atmosphere only by "wet deposition" (rain), "dry deposition" (dust settling), or radioactive decay. Otherwise, they remain in the atmosphere.
The reason that we have continued detecting fallout in the air until recently is that the initial radiation releases have taken a long time to completely settle out of the atmosphere. The deposition process can be modeled very roughly as an exponential decay with a "half life" of about 7 days, so it took many weeks to reach levels below our best limits. There have certainly been subsequent, small releases from the power plant, but these have all been millions of times smaller than the initial releases in March. Any later releases have not added significantly to what was in the atmosphere from the initial releases.
We already know from the initial arrival times of the fallout that it only takes about 7 days to reach California. Therefore the fact that I-131 has been detected (8 day half-life) is not surprising. Its continued detection did not mean that the emissions were coming directly from Fukushima. See my discussion of #1 above.
Actually, store-bought milk showed clear levels of I-131 in milk bottled as early as 3/18, which is just after the first fallout reached California. I-131 levels peaked in milk bottled on 4/3 (there is an 18 day difference between the bottling date and the "Best By" date). Likewise, Cs-134 and Cs-137 both clearly appeared in milk bottled on 3/30 and peaked for milk bottled around 4/14. I think perhaps the author is confusing Best By date with the actual bottling date of the milk.
Mark, do you think that
Mark, do you think that young children that have been drinking milk during March and April could get cancer from the contamination of the fallout?
Everyone should probably
Everyone should probably have a geiger counter to test their foods with, welcome to the new hostile world.
local fallout - bioacumulation - testing - data
As fallout can land on one farm, watershed or community and miss the one next door......
Lets send a bill to TEPCO, its shareholders and insurers for the physical plant and gear required for continual state of the art testing of air, food and water for EVERY SINGLE POSTAL CODE IN CALIFORNIA. Should be a fraction of the cost of building that underground dam.....
Them darn nuclear power plants sure are expensive.
A page from BP PR Handbook
Excerpts:
“Taking a page from the BP pubic relations handbook” …
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/06/29/radiation-in-our-food/
Medicine Hunter
Radiation in Our Food
By Chris Kilham - Published June 29, 2011 - FoxNews.com
Though the horrendous tsunami that hit Japan on March 12, 2011 seems like old news in the midst of today’s headlines, the crippled nuclear power plants at Fukishima Daichi continue to spew radiation into water, air and soil, with no end in sight.
Even as thousands of Japanese workers struggle to contain the ongoing nuclear disaster, low levels of radiation from those power plants have been detected in foods in the United States. Milk, fruits and vegetables show trace amounts of radioactive isotopes from the Fukushima Daichi power plants, and the media appears to be paying scant attention, if any attention at all. It is as if the problem only involves Japan, not the vast Pacific Ocean, into which highly radioactive water has poured by the dozens of tons, and not into air currents and rainwater that carry radiation to U.S. soil and to the rest of the world. But it is happening here, on your dinner plate.
Taking a page from the BP pubic relations handbook, TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) and the Japanese government have downplayed the extent of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daichi, in which three of six nuclear reactors are in ongoing meltdown. According to Japanese nuclear engineer Naoto Sekimura, nuclear fuel rod meltdown at the damaged plants began only hours after the tsunami, and the situation has not been contained. There is still an ongoing threat of a total “China Syndrome” meltdown, and Japanese officials now say that the three damaged plants may possibly continue to emit uncontrolled radiation for another year.
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Don't just sit there
Don't just sit there and write smart$#% responses to this post. Post the link on your Facebook account, email it to friends, tweet the link to help get the word out there. Isn't this the FIRST major news network to capture what's really been going on with food/water in one article? I haven't seen ANY major news network cover it this thoroughly. All others including CNN have tip toed around the subject since it began. Could it be that FINALLY we have the VERY START of people/major media outlets waking up to this crisis?
We CANNOT let it die down! I want EVERYTHING tested to find out where the highest concentrations of it is. I know it's everywhere, but I want to eat the stuff that has LESS of it.
My question is now though -- why isn't this on the front page of fox news? Where/how did you find this link?
Testing all over USA
I agree that we need testing of all food, soil. And water. So we know what we are ingesting. Marco Kalofen stated this in an interview with Maggie Gundersen. Farmers need to know what radioactive elements are in their soil etc. There was an article recently about a farmer in Canada who wanted to test her soil and no lab including private labs would do it. If we make this issue transparent, perhaps we will be able to start cleaning up as farmers had to do in Europe after Chernobyl. Until then, people in the know are at the mercy of the corporations and bureaucrats. People not in the know won't even know what happened to them ....unless the word is out; maybe then we'll get testing besides BRAWM which is great but what do us midwesterners do? We get no data.
You know, in retrospect, I
You know, in retrospect, I shouldn't have minimized this thing - it has freaked me out, and would have more if not for this place. I think that the thought I really should have expressed is this-
Anyone with any level of knowledge could see this 3 months ago, and Fox is picking up on it now? I mean, the ship sailed, you know? I-131 is long gone, and cesium levels are on decline in a big way. This is not to say that the thing is over, it isn't, but if you were going to avoid milk or something like that, late March-May were the months to do so.
This is a complex issue, but I felt like the Fox article was all scare and no help.
BTW, I have told anyone who will listen that this crap is here with us for a while. To a person, they have all shrugged.
actually, the iodine isn't
actually, the iodine isn't "long gone"...if you look at BRAWM's soil testing, it's been here all along. with it's 8-day half-life, that means that it's been coming over in a steady stream. this is definitely more impactful than anything we saw from chernobyl.
It was a soil non detect on
It was a soil non detect on 6/3, after having been on a very steady decline ever since the first measurement.
Please look at again. Especially look at the graph. Rapid decline to zero, due to the half-life and the fact that very very little if any is coming in to replace it.
It is estimated that current atmopsheric emissions are 1000 less than during the original week. And also, I might add, that for several years during the early sixties, there was a huge amount of fallout relative to the current event.
Fukushima sucks, I hate it. But let's look at what's really going on. I haven't seen anyone outside of Japan with an I-131 detection in the month of June. BRAWM's last couple of air measurements have gone non-detect for the cesium as well.
"To a person, they have all
"To a person, they have all shrugged."
That attitude is predominant in the comments section of the fox news article, when you go to the link. How naive am I that I was shocked at some of the virulent and embarrassingly immature replies to the author and to the content of the article? Lesson learned. The main stream media has ignored the issue and now people believe there was/is no crisis. And they act like petulant children, complete with fingers in the ears while singing "la la la" to block out anything contrary to their spoon fed truth.
Can I get a "baaaaah" ?
OH-JEEZ!!!! It's on Fox. All
OH-JEEZ!!!!
It's on Fox.
All level-headedness on my part, and especially from the long-suffering Mark and BRAWM team (who are probably right, may be off, or could be as crazy as me, but I doubt it) has been misplaced.
There are radioactive materials in the USA (USA! USA!) from Fukushima!!!!!!!!
Imagine it. My parents, and grandparents, dealt with fallout as bad our likely worse. From our own Uncle.
We will be OK. Mostly. That's the new OK, circa 1945. Or 2011.
Mostly OK.
BC
Adding more nuclear fallout
Adding more nuclear fallout is not a big deal, it is normal. It's just a little more. Don't worry. It is like flying in an airplane one more time, or something like that.
You left out circa 1986
Give credit where credit is due, man!!! :-)
VB- I have thought much on
VB-
I have thought much on that. I was ten years old, west coast US. No doubt, a similar situation, cesium, strontium, hot particles, whatever.
The difference here is largely in the knowing.