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To: WHBates

Pay attention, that from a zero baseline starting point. You can say the spike is irrelevant but you can’t prove that it is. Were they testing or should they be testing for other fallout, like plutonium?

Here, you can downplay this finding too as some form of minor aberration along with all the other recent aberrations.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=radioactive-iodine-from-from-fukushima-found-in-california-kelp


17 posted on 04/29/2012 5:21:53 PM PDT by Razzz42
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To: Razzz42
From the article you posted:

The radioactivity had no known effects on the giant kelp, or on fish and other marine life, and it was undetectable a month later...

Iodine 131 “has an eight-day half life so it’s pretty much all gone,” Manley said...

“In terms of overall exposure to the kelp bed itself, it’s not a huge amount,” said Manley. It would not have harmed the kelp...

Don't go away mad... just go away!

21 posted on 04/29/2012 5:38:14 PM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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To: Razzz42
"Pay attention, that from a zero baseline starting point.

If it's from zero baseline the it is less that meaningless. You don't seem to have any clue at all.

27 posted on 05/05/2012 8:47:12 PM PDT by WHBates
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