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Originally posted by SirMike
Trace amounts of plutonium are not uncommon in soil samples, regardless of the location,
Originally posted by Essan
Findings of nuclear contamination have dropped sharply in Japan, even in Fukushima prefecture, where the latest food samples showed no traces of radiation for two days.
At the peak last week, a total of 21 communities in four prefectures—plus Tokyo—had imposed restrictions on tap-water consumption by infants. Only four such curbs remain in place, with none outside Fukushima prefecture. Atmospheric radiation also is dropping.
online.wsj.com...
But that might mean we're not all going to die!
A long-lasting radioactive element has been measured at levels that pose a long-term danger at one spot 25 miles from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, raising questions about whether Japan’s evacuation zone should be expanded and whether the land might need to be abandoned.
The isotope, cesium 137, was measured in one village by the International Atomic Energy Agency at a level exceeding the standard that the Soviet Union used as a gauge to recommend abandoning land surrounding the Chernobyl reactor, and at another location not precisely identified by the agency at more than double the Soviet standard.
The measurements, reported Wednesday, would not be high enough to cause acute radiation illness, but far exceed standards for the general public designed to cut the risks of cancer.
While the amount measured would not pose an immediate danger, the annual dose would be too high to allow people to keep living there
Originally posted by Juanxlink
reply to post by SirMike
Try to not look retarded any more please, you are insulting the rest of the readers's intelects...
Originally posted by Essan
I've just been sitting back watching people running aorund panicking as usual
The operator of the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has detected 5 million times higher than the legal limit of radioactive iodine in seawater around the plant.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says it detected 300,000 bequerels of iodine-131 per 1 cubic centimeter, or 7.5 million times higher than the legal limit in samples taken around the water intake of the No. 2 reactor at 11:50 AM on Saturday. It also found 200,000 bequerels or 5 million times higher than the limit in samples taken at 9AM on Monday. Monday's sample also shows 1.1 million times higher than the national limit of cesium-137 whose half-life is 30 years.
The power company has been checking concentrations of radioactive materials in the seas around the plant as water containing high levels of radioactive materials has been pouring out of the cracked concrete pit near the No.2 reactor. Tuesday, April 05, 2011 13:57 +0900 (JST)
Originally posted by Essan
The initial release - caused by the explosions after the diesel generators were wiped out by the tsunami - has now ceased.
The contamination doesn't just disappear, unless they used some of the CLTC technology, but that is hush hush tech.
And unlike the radioactve iodine that killed millions of people in America and Europe this week, this will not reach our shores. Well, except perhaps California
It is unlikely that the cancer burden from the largest radiological accident to date could be detected by monitoring national cancer statistics. Indeed, results of analyses of time trends in cancer incidence and mortality in Europe do not, at present, indicate any increase in cancer rates -- other than of thyroid cancer in the most contaminated regions -- that can be clearly attributed to radiation from the Chernobyl accident.