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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/ science/plume-graphic.html? ref=science
Today's New York Times online features this animated forecast by the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization showing how weather
patterns this week might disperse radiation from a continuous source
in Fukushima, Japan.
The Times has been running daily "front page" articles on the
unfolding drama of Japanese nuclear reactors.
Quit fear mongering.
The article also states:
The forecast does not show actual levels of radiation, but it does allow the organization to estimate when different monitoring stations, marked with small dots, might be able to detect extremely low levels of radiation. Health and nuclear experts emphasize that any plume will be diluted as it travels and, at worst, would have extremely minor health consequences in the United States.
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Radioactive isotopes detected on U.S. west coast
LOS ANGELES, March 18, Kyodo
A very small amount of the radioactive substance xenon-133 was detected in California on Friday and its origin is believed to be the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan, U.S. authorities said.
But the Environmental Protection Agency dismissed any concern about human health, saying in a statement that the levels of the isotope were ''one-millionth of the dose rate that a person normally receives.''
''The origin was determined to be consistent with a release from the Fukushima reactors,'' the EPA said. The reactors have suffered partial meltdowns and hydrogen explosions since the March 11 powerful earthquake.
Xenon-133 was detected at a monitoring station in Sacramento of the Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization after some U.S. experts warned a tiny amount of radioactive substances could end up in U.S. territory after blowing over the Pacific.
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Hello,
I dont think sharing ones fears is quite 'fear mongering'. Altho i also like to be aware, Am i spreading love or fear?
I think this situation, despite the distance, is really showing us how we are all connected. And how we may like to change the policies etc here at home regarding nuclear.
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