Radiation Hitting the Streets of LA

eReade and Mark Sircus Blog ^ | June 05, 2012 | Mark Sircus

[ex-Texan]

Excerpt:

* * * Radiation is pouring out of Fukushima and that radiation is hitting the streets of Los Angles quite hard. In April 2012 environmental journalist and LA Weekly contributor Michael Collins, an independent who has tested over 1500 samples since the Fukushima earthquake of 2011, was shocked to find that radiation levels in the falling rain over L.A. measured five times above normal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XXe8K1fRqI&feature=player_embedded#t=0s * * *“The California Highway Patrol considers anything over three times background, 300% of background above, a trigger level to a hazardous materials situation,” reported the EnviroReporter.

* * * Since the last testing period, the radiation detected has risen another 130% indicating a continued upward trend. * * *

If we translate what the New York Times is saying in terms of radiation released in the first 20 days, 900,000 terabecquerels translates into 27 million curies. It is over a year later and no one knows or is saying how much aggregate radiation has been released but we can imagine it’s a staggering amount.

One curie is the amount of radiation equal to the disintegration of 37 billion atoms—37 billion becquerels—per second. It is a very large amount of radiation. We multiply these amounts (27 million curies times 37 billion radioactive atoms) and we are back to just a little more than our 900,000 terabecquerels… all the way up to 999,000,000,000,000,000 becquerels, which translates into 999,000,000,000,000,000 nuclear particles decaying in the first 20 days of the Fukushima nuclear nightmare. * *

Please read the rest at original source because of all the very helpful links put in by the author

[markman46]

and how many people even know about that little mishap

[justa-hairyape]

Well, a friend of mine who had the same attitude as yours, had a multi-hour layover in a Japanese airport late last year near Fukushima. Do not remember the exact airport. He changed his mind about Fukushima a few days later, when his hair started falling out for the first time ever in his life. Must have been something he ate, huh ?

You do not think the government was involved with the Global Warming Scam ? So all those thousands of government paid for studies that state, ...the effects from global warming could amplify the problem blah blah blah...., were written by scientists that were just idiots taken in by the false principals behind the scam ? Or are you stating these scientifically accredited writers were lying for more grant money ? Surely you jest. And what about the reams of draconian legislation and regulations written by thousands of permanent government employees to prevent AGW ?

Would post more, but Thor is swinging his hammer tonight. That means lightning in case anyone gets the wrong idea.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Gramps will be SO much easier to find in the dark, the poor dear. :)

[wideminded]

999,000,000,000,000,000 becquerels, which translates into 999,000,000,000,000,000 nuclear particles decaying in the first 20 days of the Fukushima nuclear nightmare.

No, it is that number of decays per second.

[justa-hairyape]

Just a daily update from Fukshima. Some of you may have heard that a circulation pump has caught fire. And, some of you might not have heard that. What occurred was that the terminal connection box shorted out on a pump motor in the #4 reactor spent fuel pool cooling systems. It had moved cooling water from the primary system to the secondary system. So they shut down the primary cooling system and were running on the secondary cooling system. Well, that lasted until they noticed the same problem was occurring or going to soon occur on a pump in the secondary system. Wow. Wonder what the odds of that happening were ? The temperature in the #4 spent fuel pool are expected to rise by over 200 % in the next few days, while they repair the pump electrical connection boxes. Or at least find out what the heck is leaking.

Reactor4 takes 3 more days to fix-Backup was stopped too

[Carriage Hill]

Santa Susana?

[Carriage Hill]

Santa Susana in 1959:

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=06-P13-00003&segmentID=1

Wow; well-kept secret..

[opentalk]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2012/05/29/should-we-hide-low-dose-radiation-exposures-from-the-public/

[markman46]

umm it was until 2006, I wonder if I got nuced as a 4yr old as I lived in the San Fernando Valley at the time

[null and void]

and how many people even know about that little mishap

More today than yesterday.

I lived in southern California for decades. First I heard of this was a couple months ago...

[markman46]

I heard about it about two yrs ago. had to ask my mom about it and if she remembered hearing about it. she did. all I remember about those days is the engine testing.. loud and bright

[Carriage Hill]

In 1959, I was 10 and living in Illinois, and we probably got some of the plume, too, as did much of the country down wind, if it was as bad as the article claimed. Hells bells, I’ve been smoking 2-3pks of Marlboros for 50yrs, and am still amazingly-healthy and kicking lib-dem butt at 62. LOL.

[ex-Texan]

The nuke industry is very good at covering its tracks. Ask any lawyer working in or has had experience with workers’ compensation issues.

All govt agencies turn almost pathologically paranoid when large groups of people come down with strange esoteric illnesses like Mesothelioma or bladder cancer or chronic leukemia. The medical bills alone can mount up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. One proven case may cost a nuclear company or govt agency over a million.

Agencies and companies diligently patrol all discussion forums and message boards -- posting rebuttals and paying shills to attack and urge censorship of people who are educating the masses.

Nice work if you can get it -- but far better to be with a PAC or a party operative or fund raising person, spreading money around to urge people to self-censor every post

[Toddsterpatriot]

Poor Tex was predicting thousands of US deaths within weeks of the “plume” hitting the US. I haven’t been keeping track, were there glowing bodies in the streets on the west coast? In Japan even?

[little jeremiah]

Placemark.