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15 Feb ’12
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Radiation from Japan’s 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has for the first time been detected along a North American shoreline, though at levels too low to pose a significant threat to human or marine life, scientists said.
Trace amounts of Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 were detected in samples collected on 19 February off the coast of Ucluelet, a small town on Vancouver Island in Canada’s British Columbia, said Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist Ken Buesseler.
“Radioactivity can be dangerous, and we should be carefully monitoring the oceans after what is certainly the largest accidental release of radioactive contaminants to the oceans in history,” Buesseler said in a statement.
The levels the group detected are extremely low. For example, swimming in the Vancouver Island water every day for a year would provide a dose of radiation less than a thousand times smaller than a single dental X-ray, Woods Hole said.
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It begins?Radiation from Japan’s 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has for the first time been detected along a North American shoreline, though at levels too low to pose a significant threat to human or marine life, scientists said.
Trace amounts of Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 were detected in samples collected on 19 February off the coast of Ucluelet, a small town on Vancouver Island in Canada’s British Columbia, said Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist Ken Buesseler.
“Radioactivity can be dangerous, and we should be carefully monitoring the oceans after what is certainly the largest accidental release of radioactive contaminants to the oceans in history,” Buesseler said in a statement.
The levels the group detected are extremely low. For example, swimming in the Vancouver Island water every day for a year would provide a dose of radiation less than a thousand times smaller than a single dental X-ray, Woods Hole said.
Far as we know, this has been true ever since that happened. We don't eat fish from the ocean and I am sure that the related statistics (deaths, cancers etc.) are not even being taken let alone publicized in or from Japan. Hiroshima was bad enough and an act of war, but nuclear 'accidents' are plain old STUPID. I - briefly! - worked at GE's nuclear division years ago (as a temp help) and the engineering there was so behind the time! In fact when they closed that plant, the engineers there could NOT find jobs as engineers in other fields of work. I had no loved of GE products before (2 lousy ovens in 2 new house) and since then vowed to not buy a light bulb from GE let alone support any nuclear 'power'.
Add to this 'rumors' such as France dumping its nuclear waste in the Atlantic and leakage of same from Hanford 'dump' in Washington. Ma Nature will adapt, but she has millions of years for her work. Good ol' George Carlin has it about as right as can be -
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