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Old 03-30-2012, 03:42 PM
 
Location: The Other California
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I don't know much about this, but if true, the long-term consequences could be very unpleasant. If you're scientifically literate and "in the know", please illuminate!

California Slammed With Fukushima Radiation

"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.'"
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Old 03-30-2012, 03:55 PM
 
Location: SW MO
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Illuminate? Just turn out the lights tonight and see if you glow. If so, that will be quite illuminating.
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Old 03-30-2012, 04:06 PM
 
Location: The Other California
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Illuminate? Just turn out the lights tonight and see if you glow. If so, that will be quite illuminating.
It wouldn't illuminate me way up here in Jefferson territory, but I'll check for a glow in the southern sky. [pipe smoking icon]
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Old 03-30-2012, 06:22 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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EnviroReporter.com’s Radiation Station » EnviroReporter.com
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Old 03-30-2012, 06:26 PM
 
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Alarmist tripe.
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Old 03-30-2012, 07:34 PM
 
Location: The Other California
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Alarmist tripe.
Could be. I suspect you're right, but am I supposed to take your word for it?

Are the claims true or false?

If false, how do you know?

If true, is this level of radiation harmful? If not, why not?
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Old 03-31-2012, 12:22 AM
 
Location: Conejo Valley, CA
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Iodine 131 has a half-life of 8 days......

A banana is of a greater concern....
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Old 03-31-2012, 09:56 AM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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Illuminate? Just turn out the lights tonight and see if you glow. If so, that will be quite illuminating.
This just deserved a rep LOL
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Old 03-31-2012, 10:00 AM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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Could be. I suspect you're right, but am I supposed to take your word for it?

Are the claims true or false?

If false, how do you know?

If true, is this level of radiation harmful? If not, why not?
Why did you decide to wait a year after to post this? It most certainly didn't take that long to get here. What are you really trying to accomplish here if it's not a bad attempt at alarm? There's a reason you're not being taken too seriously here.
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Old 03-31-2012, 10:06 AM
 
Location: SW MO
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This just deserved a rep LOL
Thank you, Sir. Call me a cockeyed optomist but I just can't get into gloom and doom.
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