Excessive Radiation Found in Sea Organisms Near Japan's Nuke Plant

[Fledermaus]

2011-08-24 19:36:26 Xinhua Web Editor: Guo
Biological samples taken from waters in the Western Pacific region east of Fukushima, Japan show excessive radiation levels, said a statement from China's State Oceanic Administration on Wednesday.

The administration suggested that government agencies intensify radiation testing of marine products from the targeted waters to protect public health in China.

According to the statement, the levels of strontium-90, a radioactive isotope of strontium, found in squids are 29 times higher than the average background level of samples taken from China's coastal waters.

This indicates that these waters have been clearly affected by radioactive material that leaked from the crippled nuclear power plant in Fukushima during the massive earthquake and tsunami disaster on March 11, the statement said.
http://english.cri.cn/6966/2011/08/24/2743s655052.htm

[theoldman]

1. Surprise, surprise

I don't eat squids but a lot of Asians eat them.

[rfranklin]

2. Calamari prepared correctly is a fantastic dish...

especially the legs!

[kristopher]

4. I love squid pizza

The body is the best part but the legs, when grilling dried squid, offers the added bonus texture of crunchy sucker pads.

http://snackattackblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/japanese-snack-week-amiyaki-surume.html

(no tentacles in this vid, but you get the idea)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or1PHjsBXKI&feature=related


Oh well, another cultural and health casualty of the Fukushima meltdown.

[Poll_Blind]

3. Some of those contaminated animals migrate or were in the process of migrating and...

...one should consider that each of those animals will become little, unintentional warheads carrying deadly payloads. They will migrate and die or be eaten and their toxicity passed on up the food chain. A fish to a bird to a cat with a lucky swipe and you could be curling up at night in Darwin, Australia with a kitty whose half-lives might be difficult to count.

PB

[drokhole]

5. Up the food chain it goes...

...where it stops, nobody knows.