Fukushima radiation found in California kelp [View all]

from the SF Chronicle:

Kelp off California was contaminated with short-lived radioisotopes a month after Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant accident, a sign that the spilled radiation reached the state's coastline, according to a new scientific study.

Scientists from CSU Long Beach tested giant kelp collected off Orange County, Santa Cruz and other locations after the March 2011 accident and detected radioactive iodine, which was released from the damaged nuclear reactor.

The largest concentration was about 250 times higher than levels found in kelp before the accident.

"Basically, we saw it in all the California kelp blades we sampled," said Steven Manley, a CSU Long Beach biology professor who specializes in kelp. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/07/BAO51O00HO.DTL#ixzz1rb33DIln

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Fukushima radiation found in California kelp [View all]	marmar	Apr 2012	OP
Seriously? We're screwn. That radiation is EVERYWHERE -- why on earth do they pretend	gateley	Apr 2012	#1
Seriously, you need to get an education. Coal fired plants emit more "fallout"...	TheMadMonk	Apr 2012	#6
sure are wasting a lot of money on all those containment facilities than	got root	Apr 2012	#9
GLOBAL and LOCAL are two very different things.	TheMadMonk	Apr 2012	#15
Thanks for your very sane comment.	truedelphi	Apr 2012	#36
Gosh! I had NO IDEA cole fired plants emit fallout! Well since they're WORSE, lets	gateley	Apr 2012	#11
Actually, I'm comforted by you lot, despite fifty years of trying, failing...	TheMadMonk	Apr 2012	#16
The earth is flat	Generic Other	Apr 2012	#24
6000 years old	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#28
NO! Radiation can hurt you. It can hurt you a lot IF you get a big enough dose.	TheMadMonk	Apr 2012	#41
My relatives live within 100 miles of Fukushima	Generic Other	Apr 2012	#50
Belief and worry are almost certainly doing your relatives more damage...	TheMadMonk	Apr 2012	#52
You willing to eat their crops? For how long?	Generic Other	Apr 2012	#53
Perfectly willing. I'm sure you're aware of the health effects of stress.	TheMadMonk	Apr 2012	#54
What goes around comes around	Generic Other	Apr 2012	#56
Well in all sincerity, I wish you luck and I wish I COULD be swayed.	gateley	Apr 2012	#26
Really? When, with a different subject, (and poorer spelling) your post might...	TheMadMonk	Apr 2012	#42
It was undetectable later because, as you note, it was radioactive iodine they were checking for.	Warren DeMontague	Apr 2012	#46
Since AFAIK, nothing concentrates caesium in it's tissues, like kelp...	TheMadMonk	Apr 2012	#51
Hope you're right. nt	Warren DeMontague	Apr 2012	#55
Should I pretend to be a smidgen surprised?	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#2
Only if you forgot about all the conversations we had	Rex	Apr 2012	#40
"If I should remark that in the Pacific depths. . .	Journeyman	Apr 2012	#3
f-----!	FirstLight	Apr 2012	#4
"it was undetectable a month later. Iodine 131 "has an eight-day half-life..."	uppityperson	Apr 2012	#5
Iodine 131 has a half life of eight days	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#17
I notice you conveniently omitted the following paragraph...	TheMadMonk	Apr 2012	#7
Maybe it was omitted because only 4 paragraphs are allowed to be excerpted.	neverforget	Apr 2012	#8
That's more likely to be excuse than reason. Four is a guideline...	TheMadMonk	Apr 2012	#12
sure, nothing to worry about, coal fall out is even worse	got root	Apr 2012	#10
Umm, I always post the first four graphs of any article, with a link.....	marmar	Apr 2012	#14
Oh he will...	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#18
Even if those four paragraphs beg a different conclusion, than...	TheMadMonk	Apr 2012	#20
"It seems ALL you every do in an OP is post the first four paras, then sit back and wait ..."	marmar	Apr 2012	#21
I in fact do click links. I also know (as I'm sure you do) that a hell of a lot...	TheMadMonk	Apr 2012	#30
Like me, he always posts the first four paras	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#19
Cancer rates will go up.	Mimosa	Apr 2012	#25
Well it's not cover	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#27
Around Chernobyl yes, but in much lower numbers than doomsdayers...	TheMadMonk	Apr 2012	#33
Yup, this is why Chernobyl is still an exclusion zone	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#44
Almost certainly. By an amount so small as to be essentially indistinguishable...	TheMadMonk	Apr 2012	#34
Doh	abelenkpe	Apr 2012	#13
Fergedaboutit. Minus time from the smog certainly helped more...	TheMadMonk	Apr 2012	#35
i look forward to it being in the toothpaste of our economic overlords.	NuttyFluffers	Apr 2012	#22
Get your bananas	malaise	Apr 2012	#23
Not surprising. There was a release from	MineralMan	Apr 2012	#29
the problem is much bigger than the iodine -radiation	truedelphi	Apr 2012	#37
Sounds like a pretty boring diet, really.	MineralMan	Apr 2012	#38
that beautiful coastline in California is going	lovuian	Apr 2012	#31
No, it's not.	zappaman	Apr 2012	#32
Not until the next major earthquake, it's not.	MineralMan	Apr 2012	#39
If San Onofre goes...	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#45
Apparently this was from rain during that time	suffragette	Apr 2012	#43
Hold it, some of us said 8-10 days for jet stream to bring it over	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#47
Yes, I remember those days, too, and in the same way	suffragette	Apr 2012	#48
You remember correctly	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#49