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EPA RADnet Reports Show Plutonium in US since March 18th

[martin14]

Scape Scape:

New EPA milk samples in Hawaii show radiation in milk at 800% above limits

That's a nice map.


So kids in Hawaii are now drinking irradiated milk,
a number of US cities are now reporting radiation in the water.
And Plutonium isnt fun at any level.



It'll soon be time to keep the kids out of the rain.



But all we get are American stories, I guess the radiation didnt get a visa for Canada...

[PublicAnimalNo9]

martin14 martin14:

But all we get are American stories, I guess the radiation didnt get a visa for Canada...

That's ok, it'll arrive in Toronto claiming it's visa was stolen en route

[raydan]

It's on a boat and will be arriving in Vancouver harbor in a couple of weeks.

[Public_Domain]

[Brenda]

martin14 martin14:

But all we get are American stories, I guess the radiation didnt get a visa for Canada...

And then we still bitch that it is so easy to immigrate to Canada

[djakeydd]

Guess we will see in a few years or maybe less if everyone south of the 49th and globally - who knows - is full of free radicals and other life altering nasties. It's so touching that we dont have the migration of rads problem here in Canada.

[Brenda]

If we aren't all full of free radicals already, I wouldn't be scared.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Just increase your intake of berries, broccoli, garlic, green tea and tomatoes(in any form)
These foods have just about the highest antioxident levels of any other foods.

[ShepherdsDog]

blueberries and acacia juice if you're that concerned. Just think of all the above ground nuclear tests that have occurred since 1945. That's a shitload more radioactive waste pumped into our environment than what is being released from Fukushima.

[Scape]

$1:

"A speck of it the size of a pollen grain, if caught in the lungs after inhalation or in bone after ingestion, can cause cancer. A severe reactor accident with plutonium-based MOX fuel in one-third of the core will result in 100% more latent cancer fatalities than if the core was made up entirely of conventional uranium fuel. Such an accident with an all-MOX core would kill 300% more people than with an all-uranium core. (See NCI Scientific Director Edwin Lyman's "Public Health Risks of Substituting Mixed-Oxide Fuel for Uranium Fuel in Pressurized Water Reactors," Science and Global Security, Princeton University, 2000, Volume 9, pp. 1-47.)"

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All the blueberries in the world won't save you if you breath or eat just the smallest fleck of this. Plutonium is lethal and so is cesium and it will be around for 30 years at least just like the boars in Germany were issued a do not eat order last year because of radiation from the Ukrainian melt down in 1986.

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. had said Tuesday that it had found iodine-131 at 7.5 million times the legal limit in a seawater sample taken near the facility, and government officials instituted a health limit for radioactivity in fish. Other samples were found to contain radioactive cesium at 1.1 million times the legal limit.

A weapon produces most of its energy in radiation immediately after detonation. Nuclear power however is designed to give off radiation for a much longer period of time. Comparing a-bomb tests in 1945 to reactor's being used today is a non-sequitur.

The Southwest US were hundreds of weapons were tested in the air and on the ground is still radioactive, but even though hundreds of bombs were tested, its still only radioactive as the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

In fact, some measurements indicate that the Chernobyl zone is even more radioactive as evidenced by sheer number of cancers and deformaties around the region, compared to the southwest which has much smaller numbers of these problems.

Also, many weapons were tested in the Pacific, some in Russia/Kazakhstan. Also the weapons were tested over decades, not a year or two. This makes a difference in dispersion of radiation and fallout intensities.

[djakeydd]

Yeah, a speck of plutonium especially via inhalation is deadly in the form of a nano particle - for all intents, apparently it's about the most toxic substance known.

[Scape]

Just ask Alexander Litvinenko.

[Brenda]

Scape Scape:

Just ask Alexander Litvinenko.

Cigarette smoke contains Polonium 210 too. Just sayin'.