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bluecoat_fan

(262 posts)
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 02:52 PM Feb 2012

CNN:Radiation levels higher but safe off Fukushima Daiichi, scientists say

Article contains radioactive banana safe logic, but comments at bottom are beating it up so far.

snippet...
"Levels of the long-lived nuclear waste cesium-137 were 1,000 times higher in seawater samples"...
...
"But the readings amounted to a fraction of the amount of radioactivity sea life is exposed to from naturally occurring potassium in seawater."

Also, the "experts" did not know that radioactive silver comes from melted control rods.
from the article...
"Cesium results were about what researchers expected, but the presence of the radioactive silver was a surprise"

link here
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/22/world/asia/japan-fukushima-pacific/index.html

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