Don't forget the added benefit of not having to turn on the lights when eating fish for dinner. The glow lights up the room quite nicely.
Posted on 03/09/2014 6:32:40 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
Drudge posted an article (from a banned source) which stated that very low levels of Fukushima radiation will likely reach the West Coast next month.
Incredibly, the article states that there is no federal agency which currently samples Pacific Coast seawater for radiation.
I find it disturbing that:
1. There is money being spent for many frivolous activities, yet three is no monitoring for radiation on the West Coast?
2. The EPA is monitoring puddles on people's private property, yet there is no monitoring of radiation on the West Coast!
When did you join MISO?
Yikes.
As far as Oregon's concerned, March 22 should be interesting...
The complicit media has done such a good job for their masters that only a small minority have any concern at all...all the while the government keeps revising ALARA limits and the EPA is having some quite interesting things to say about their new PAG.
Fwiw, open this map and click 'all' in the upper right.. It's a sample map, but they seem to keep it updated. MY major problem with it is that it doesn't show offshore levels at Fukushima and that they drew a straight line across the Pacific for measurements rather than following the current eastward. I don't believe it's a realistic portrait of what's there, but interesting, nonetheless (and a whole lot more than NOAA is doing, the responsible agency for testing the ocean, which is nothing, at least publicly).
Also fwiw, I have documentation stating the Cesium 137 concentrations in the Pacific in 2010 from all the nuclear testing & post-England & Russia nuke accidents was:
.00000009 Bq/cubic meter.
On the basis of what appear to be 'low' levels (certainly when compared to EPA's action levels) of contamination, do the math: One sample at 4.5 Bq/cu meter is 5 x 10 to the 7th power...50,000,000 times background pre-Fukushima. Again, FWIW...
Potasium iodide will protect you from radioactive iodine, I-131. Nothing else. The thyroid absorb iodine, radioactive or not. If you flood the thyroid with non-radioactive iodine, the thyroid wont absorb radioactive iodine.
But I-131 has a half life of 8 days. Fukushima no longer has any radioactive iodine. All of the iodine from Fukushima has since decayed. Your advice is more harmful than helpful
The Atoll blasts were numerous, and both nuclear and Thermonuclear. Detonating such weapons on the surface, or in some cases below the surface (waterline) are inherently more “dirty” as far as nuclear fallout is concerned, so your point is crucial.
However, no “cleanup” that would be useful with current knowledge was ever undertaken as far as I can tell, but I may be mistaken with that premise. Even more to the point, such cleanup may not have even been feasible considering the difference in “terrain” between my two examples, so that point is also crucial concerning a valid comparison.
I suppose it would have been a better point to consider if the Marshall Islands would be better off if a concerted effort would have been made to decontaminate the affected sites by our country over the last 6 decades considering we were the ones who contaminated it in the first place, along with the question of would it have been viable in the first place.
So many variables...
Thanks for the interesting take on media and EPA and the links. Not sure I would want to sign up for March 22...
I assure you that sealife off the coast of Japan is heavily scrutinized. Because it is relevant near the source.
If you had any sense of dilution factors, you would understand that ut simply isn’t worth the expense to monitor west coast sealife radiation.
Get back to me when you learn of any Instances of elevated strontium or cobalt in fish smuggled in from Japan to the west coast fish markets. Because thats the only evidence that your silly biological vector theory will have any validity
I’m hoping Godzilla comes out of the ocean.
Let's do the math (I have already):
Fukushima is widely accepted to have released into the Pacific Ocean between estimated 3,000,000,000,000,000 - 34,000,000,000,000,000 Becquerels of Cesium 137 (just one isotope, not including airborne).
If the Pacific Ocean is estimated to have 137 million cubic miles of water and we use a 'mid' number of 13PBq 137cs, by my math (done twice) that equals 2.399 Bq/Liter, or 1.6 Bq/cubic meter, if the entirety of all the released radioactivity were 100% diluted in the Pacific.
That's 26 1/2 Million times background pre-Fukushima. Even is my math is egregiously in error, it's still an order of magnitude, not 'diluted'. And the Pacific won't 100% dilute anything in 3 years, let alone 100.
Give the dilution garbage a rest. I urge you to learn more about Pacific currents. /s
The total amounts of 137 Cs directly released into the sea have been estimated to be from 3.5 ∼ 4 PBq (Tsumune et al., 2012; Kawamura et al., 2011) up to 27 ± 15PBq (Bailly du Bois et al., 2012).
(for those not able to do the math this late at night, PBq is Peta Becquerel, or One Quadrillion Becquerels, or 15 zeroes)
Background Cesium 137 in the Pacific in 2010 was 0.00000009 Bq/cubic meter.
Oh, and for the sake of stating it, that "background" radiation people defending keep parroting? That's largely a result of all the nuclear testing, with a little bit added from Windscale & Chernobyl, or 950 PBq spread all over the planet. What will be Background or ALARA next year???
You “assure” me?
That’s it?
Well, that pretty much nails the whole thing right there, don’t it?
Why didn’t I just ask for that in the first place?
After all, you have the ONLY evidence criteria that would validate “my silly biological vector theory.”
Of radiation concentration through linked interdependent biological ecologies?
Which of course is ENTIRELY different from, say, MILLIONS of other toxin concentrations studied by ENTIRE FIELDS of science that aggregate from the same mechanism.
Entirely.Different.
Except I really must protest, because I just can’t take credit for an entire field of study. You know, the “silly biological vector theory” that DOESN”T apply to radiation acumulation. That one. The stuff of entire fields of science.
That one.
Unlike my silly gasoline combustion engine theory. Or my silly heavier-than-air human flight theory. Or my silly electronic computing device theory.
Go away, troll.
The “radiation” that will arrive will give you as much radiation as walking past an office building with a banana in it.
Not to complicate the subject but the Japanese have tested for radiation in our wheat from the Northwest since Chernobyl. I worry about the tea & seafood harvested in Japan and imported here. Also tuna that has concentrated radiation over there & then migrate here for us to catch.
John Kerry believes global warming is one of the most dangerous things happening ini the world right now. I’d post “sarcasm,” but sadly it’s not.
Don't forget the added benefit of not having to turn on the lights when eating fish for dinner. The glow lights up the room quite nicely.
Perhaps it is the lateness of the hour, but I got a really good audible laugh out of your clever reply and picture in spite of the concerns you raise!
Not to complicate the subject but the Japanese have tested for radiation in our wheat from the Northwest since Chernobyl. I worry about the tea & seafood harvested in Japan and imported here. Also tuna that has concentrated radiation over there & then migrate here for us to catch.
The “radiation” that will arrive will give you as much radiation as walking past an office building with a banana in it.
IN all seriousness, I read that they are continually building reservoirs to hold the contaminated water :(
The fish are already exposed.
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