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To: nickcarraway

How did a nuclear reactor fuel element wind up in shrimp?

Fukushima?


13 posted on 08/19/2025 1:04:17 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Not likely.

If any amount of Cs-137 was in the discharges from Fukushima the Chinese would have had a news blast about it the next day.

China is watching Japanese discharges like a hawk.


17 posted on 08/19/2025 1:07:56 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Fukushima?

Possibly. The shrimp was from Indonesia. The radioactive material from Fukushima would tend to sink to the bottom, where the shrimp feed. The Cesium-137 was detected at 68 Bq/kg, far below the 1,200 Bq/kg threshold for concern.
1 becquerel (Bq) = 1 count per second (cps).
68 Bq (cps) x 60 cpm/cps = 4080 cpm.
Background is ~60 cpm, mildly radioactive (varies depending on the isotope).

From what I remember about rule-of-thumb,
100,000 cpm = 0.1 mrem/hr (Gamma).
1200 Bq = 72,000 cpm, <0.1 mrem/hr, not dangerous unless consumed.
Note: 2.2 pounds of steamed shrimp is good eating.


47 posted on 08/19/2025 5:28:26 PM PDT by thepoodlebites (and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.)
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