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March 30, 2012
from
WashingtonsBlog Website
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Fukushima Radiation Plume
Hit Southern and Central California |
The Journal Environmental Science and Technology reports in a new
study that the Fukushima radiation plume contacted North America at
California “with greatest exposure in central and southern
California”, and that Southern California’s seaweed tested over 500%
higher for radioactive
iodine-131 than anywhere else in the U.S. and
Canada:
Projected paths of the radioactive
atmospheric plume emanating from the Fukushima reactors, best
described as airborne particles or aerosols for 131I, 137Cs, and
35S, and subsequent atmospheric monitoring showed it coming in
contact with the North American continent at California, with
greatest exposure in central and southern California. Government
monitoring sites in Anaheim (southern California) recorded peak
airborne concentrations of 131I at 1.9 pCi m−3
Anaheim is where Disneyland is located.
EneNews summarizes the data:
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Corona Del Mar (Highest in
Southern California): 2.5 Bq/gdwt (gram dry weight) = 2,500 Bq/kg of dry seaweed
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Santa Cruz (Highest in Central
California): 2.0 Bq/gdwt = 2,000 Bq/kg of dry seaweed
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Simon Fraser University in
Canada also tested North American seaweed after Fukushima:
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“In samples of
dehydrated seaweed taken on March 15 near the North
Vancouver SeaBus terminal, the count was zero; on
March 22 it was 310 Bq per kilogram; and by March 28
it was 380 Bq/kg.”
-Vancouver Sun
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Seaweed in Seattle also
tested positive for iodine-131; levels were not
reported
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KIRO
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No results after March
28 were reported
In addition, radioactive debris is
starting to wash up on the Pacific Coast.
And because the Japanese
are burning radioactive materials instead of disposing of them,
radioactive rain-outs will continue for some time… even on the
Pacific Coast.
Of course, the government is doing everything it can to help
citizens cover up what’s occurring.
We
pointed out in January:
Instead of doing much to try to
protect their citizens from Fukushima,
Japan,
the U.S. and the
EU (below video) all just raised the radiation levels they deem “safe”.
Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen
says that high-level friends in
the State Department told him that Hillary Clinton signed a pact
with her counterpart in Japan agreeing that the U.S. will
continue buying seafood from Japan, despite that food not being
tested for radioactive materials [see
this].
And the Department of Energy is trying to replace the
scientifically accepted model of the dangers of low dose
radiation based on voodoo science. Specifically, DOE’s Lawrence
Berkeley Labs used a mutant line of human cells in a petri dish
which was able to repair damage from low doses of radiation, and
extrapolated to the unsupported conclusion that
everyone is
immune to low doses of radiation…
Indeed:
American and Canadian authorities
have virtually stopped monitoring airborne radiation, and are
not testing fish for radiation. (Indeed, the EPA reacted to
Fukushima by raising “acceptable” radiation levels.)
So - as in Japan - radiation is usually discovered by citizens
and the handful of research scientists with funding to check,
and not the government. See this, this, this, this, this and
this.
The Japanese government’s entire strategy from day one has been
to cover up the severity of the Fukushima accident. This has
likely led to unnecessary, additional deaths.
Indeed, the core problem is that all of the world’s nuclear
agencies are wholly captured by the nuclear industry … as are
virtually all of the supposedly independent health agencies.
So the failure of the American, Canadian and other governments
to test for and share results is making it difficult to hold an
open scientific debate about what is happening.
And it’s not just radiation from Japan.
An effort by the Southern California Edison power company to
secretly ramp up production to avoid public disclosure may have led
to a leak at the San Onofre nuclear power plant.
And see these articles on California radiation exposure courtesy of
EneNews:
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