Coast getting little radiation from Fukushima disaster

[XemaSab]

Scientists reported Wednesday that low levels of radiation from Japan's Fukushima disaster first detected off the California coast two years ago have been declining ever since and remain well below any levels considered unsafe for humans.

The scientists, from UC Santa Cruz and Stony Brook University in New York, were responding to public concerns raised this week by an Internet video claiming that dangerously high radiation levels had been detected in the sands of Pacifica State Beach.

The video has gone viral and shows an unidentified man carrying a commercial Geiger counter that displays radiation counts purportedly rising to "alert" levels as he walks along the beach often frequented by surfers.

An Internet "news" site is claiming that news of the radioactivity is being suppressed by unnamed government sources.

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Coast-getting-little-radiation-from-Fukushima-5125645.php

[TexasProgresive]

1. B-b-b-b-b-but starfish are melting! n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. They are, but not because of the radiation

UC Santa Cruz is tracking it to a cyclical bacteria.

Here

http://www.eeb.ucsc.edu/pacificrockyintertidal/data-products/sea-star-wasting/

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. Holy shit! There is Fukushima radiation on Pacifica State Beach?

We were planning a trip there this summer. Not now.