Posted on 03/29/2011 9:46:54 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Low-level radiation in Massachusetts rainwater
BOSTON | Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:16pm EDT
BOSTON (Reuters) - Trace amounts of radioactive iodine linked to Japan's crippled nuclear power station have turned up in rainwater samples as far away as Massachusetts during the past week, state officials said on Sunday.
The low level of radioiodine-131 detected in precipitation at a sample location in Massachusetts is comparable to findings in California, Washington State and Pennsylvania and poses no threat to drinking water supplies, public health officials said.
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Just the thought of them having anxiety attacks is enough for me...
Global oh noes!
How does iodine, of all things, manage to stay airborne? It does not form part of any common gaseous compounds.
If one likes ketchup, do not buy Heinz.
I would think it could do quite well in particulate form - ash and dust manage to stay airborne for quite a while.
I suppose so if it’s fine enough dust; after all, volcanic ash does that. Presumably this would be from the blast that occurred at one of the reactors, so it’s not getting continually pumped into the air, and this stuff has a half life of about eight days. It would be almost all gone in three months.
I have always felt that Heinz was the best quality mass market brand of ketchup, ever since I was a kid. Del Monte was a distant second, and anything else... blech. Are they somehow involved in the release of iodine into the air in Japan?
23and while they were sailing he fell asleep. A squall blew over the lake, and they were taking in water and were in danger.
24They came and woke him saying, "Master, master, we are perishing!" He awakened, rebuked the wind and the waves, and they subsided and there was a calm.
25Then he asked them, "Where is your faith?" But theywere filled with awe and amazed and said to one another, "Who then is this, who commands even the winds and the sea, and they obey him?"
Taking into account a half-life of 8 days, the radioactivity of the iodine detected in Mass should have been 1/2 or less of what was detected in Calif 5 days prior.
So, why are the levels the same?
OK that’s the scripture; what’s the prayer?
Nobody, not even the Chicken Littles in Australia, is expecting a noticeable effect upon U.S. dwelling humans from the quantity of radioactive debris that came from the crippled Japanese plants. A prayer for the Japanese might be more to point, as the ocean and wind washes and blows that stuff all around their island.
The measurements were, I believe, in rainfall. If radio-iodine containing dust got kicked up into the stratosphere and is still settling down to cloud level, that might roughly balance with the decrease in overall quantity due to decay.
BS.
Math?
John Kerry's nuclear-powered yacht ran aground the other day... a little radiation may have slipped out.
Probably higher in DC as Kennedy slowly rots in the ground releasing toxic gas.
What are they comparing this to? As in, what were the levels say 2 weeks ago or 3-4 weeks ago? What is the base sample before Japan?
EPA findings seem pretty useless.
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