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Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to US
Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^
| Monday, May 28, 2012
| ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer
Posted on 05/28/2012 7:01:21 PM PDT by thecodont
(05-28) 12:48 PDT LOS ANGELES, (AP) --
Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/05/28/national/a120114D60.DTL#ixzz1wDhpH1BO
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fisheries; fukushima; fukushimatuna; nuclearradiation; radioactivetuna; tuna
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Ask any mermaid you happen to see....
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posted on
05/28/2012 7:01:35 PM PDT
by
thecodont
To: thecodont
Photo of mutating fish
OH the article said "migrating" not "mutating". My mistake.
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posted on
05/28/2012 7:06:08 PM PDT
by
Domandred
(Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
To: thecodont
I’ll have tuna on rye, hold the gamma rays...
To: thecodont
Well heck just tell him to drop it.
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posted on
05/28/2012 7:08:27 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: thecodont
They probably did it in record time too, being nuclear powered and all...
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posted on
05/28/2012 7:08:32 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: thecodont
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posted on
05/28/2012 7:12:49 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
("God? I didn't know he was signed onto the system.")
To: thecodont
Tuna just doesn’t taste right anymore without the dolphin in it.
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posted on
05/28/2012 7:16:04 PM PDT
by
Clay Moore
(The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: thecodont
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posted on
05/28/2012 7:19:51 PM PDT
by
REDWOOD99
("Everyone should pay taxes. Everyone should pay the same rate.)
To: thecodont
"That was the best dinner ever! I can has that kind of tuna again?"
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posted on
05/28/2012 7:31:13 PM PDT
by
Hunton Peck
(See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
To: thecodont
Hey! How's it glowing?
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posted on
05/28/2012 7:32:50 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(Our new, happy lives.)
To: thecodont
I’m sure congress can solve the problem by passing a law against tuna becoming radioative.
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posted on
05/28/2012 7:33:35 PM PDT
by
meatloaf
(Support Senate S 1863 & House Bill 1380 to eliminate oil slavery.)
To: thecodont
Why do you think they call it spicy tuna roll?
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posted on
05/28/2012 7:34:42 PM PDT
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: thecodont
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posted on
05/28/2012 7:35:00 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
To: thecodont
Took my radiation survey meter to the grocery store.
It registered .05 rad/hr at the tuna shelves.
I am not concerned about a rad per day or less. However, what if one swallows a tiny hot fallout particle and it ends up in a vital organ?
I know the anti nuke crowd has been overstating the danger for generations, but this time I wonder if the danger is real.
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posted on
05/28/2012 7:38:22 PM PDT
by
darth
To: thecodont
“Radioactive Tuna!” would be a great name for a band.
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posted on
05/28/2012 7:45:24 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(The Presidential Race is about the relative light reflectivity of your Slavemaster.)
To: Joe 6-pack
Their glow makes them easier to see and catch. What is everyone bitching about?
Just think. You can have a self—warming tuna melt sandwich whenever you want.
To: darth
I am not concerned about a rad per day or less.05 rad/hr*24 hr= 1.2 rad/day. Sounds kind of high to be just background. Did you calibrate your meter against a standard source recently?
the real test would be to measure the radioctivity of the tuna itself. cs137 decays via beta. Your meter wouldn't be able measure beta through a can anyway.
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posted on
05/28/2012 8:07:08 PM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: darth
Nuclear energy is only dangerous when it melts down. Fear of it melting down is a conspiracy theory. Git with da program! :)
To: thecodont
the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.
Does that mean that it's been tried before, but the other fishies weren't up to the task?
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posted on
05/28/2012 8:18:04 PM PDT
by
Parmy
To: thecodont
A whole fish is probably less radioactive than a banana.
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