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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 12:28 AM
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Cesium detected in Shizuoka tea
Source: NHK World

Cesium detected in Shizuoka tea

Radioactive cesium exceeding the legal limit was detected in tea made in a factory in Shizuoka City, more than 300 kilometers away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Shizuoka Prefecture is one of the most famous tea producing areas in Japan.

A tea distributor in Tokyo reported to the prefecture that it detected high levels of radioactivity in the tea shipped from the city. The prefectural government confirmed the contamination on Thursday, detecting 679 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium. The legal limit is 500 becquerels.

The prefecture ordered the factory to refrain from shipping out the product.

After the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, radioactive contamination of tea leaves and processed tea has been found over a wide area around Tokyo.

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Read more: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/10_01.html
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ClarkUSA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 12:40 AM
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1. This was bound to happen.
It bodes ill for the rest of their domestic food supply.
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PoliticAverse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 12:49 AM
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2. Don't worry in 30 years there will be only half as much radioactivity... n/t
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Downwinder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 01:26 AM
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6. Still the official position of the AEC(DOE), DOH, and DOD.
Radioactive fallout won't bother you. Just don't drink the milk. Vegetables, livestock no problem.
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ballaratocker Donating Member (49 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 12:52 AM
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3. Worse when you consider that Shizuoka is further south of Tokyo.
How far is this crap gonna spread? Hearing this is especially worrying for me as I lived in Shizuoka prefecture for 2 years.
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Newest Reality Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 12:55 AM
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4. It is just another,
Edited on Fri Jun-10-11 01:30 AM by Newest Reality
of a long stream of metaphors that remind us that our current way of life is not working when it comes to honoring and preserving life itself.

Why beat around the bush, (Dubya or otherwise) when we cannot hope to continue to live life out of balance and hope in some intellectual or spiritually hopeful way that it will continue on the premise of wishful thinking totally divorced from our actions and current lifestyles.

I am not at all presenting an ultimatum that everyone must agree with and follow, but I do wonder when we will get down to the organism basis, as a collective whole, and realize that the survival of ourselves and future generations in a sense that has never been so on the line, like our predicament, ever. We are letting our future become a toss of the dice rather than a deep, organismic response to what we are seeing going on, in full view, (if you are not in the hocus-pocus world of corporate media Simulations) and we can manage to stomach, (well, the pharmaceuticals do help with the symptoms, don't they) the overall decimation on almost everything so that a few of us can sport hardons and show off the spoils of their immense profit like ultra-empowered teenagers on a world-imploding Spring Break?

Oh come on now, Humanity ... is that all you can show me after all these centuries ... eons? You have gone through ages and ages of climate changes, ice ages, and hardships galore. Here you are now, after accomplishing and surviving all of that and you are going to tell me that bullshit corporations, (with rich, elite families hiding behind them) and a bunch of clown-like, repetitive, hired talking heads spouting credulous propaganda for their masters is going to lead you to your ultimate demise, individually and as a species? Really? I think not! Perhaps our own nature will prevail, as it has before and become ascendant to what may be seen as a most trivial right of passage in hindsight.

We are, and always have been, the epitome of adaptability. That is why I attribute very little to what some consider human nature, (to command it, you can simply define it to the most adaptable of species). We are going to win this simply because nature itself has hit us with worse in the past and we continued and prospered after that. What seems like a major struggle, amidst the current and horrific travesties we now endure) will, in hindsight, turn out to be merely a short and valuable struggle. That is, if our long travails through human history in relation to the extremes of nature, (a powerful force) prove correct.

Think about that the next time all the clowns and manipulators out there rain on your parade and intent to decide what you should decide because of stature or sheer doggedness. Your heritage as a member of this species already holds a powerful contradiction to their short-term attempts to divert and subvert what you know in your gut. This is really nothing more than the equivalent of another Ice Age or a need to migrate due to a drought, etc. We will get through it once we accept and know what is happening to us and why. That's the key. They, (the riding, directing, controlling) really don't want the bulk of us to know that either. We can and will. Time is a factor.

Edit: Typos/clarity.
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freshwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 01:00 AM
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5. Thanks, needs to be said.
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 02:12 AM
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7. terras depressas
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Downwinder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 03:59 AM
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8. Radioactive strontium detected 62 km from Fukushima No. 1 plant
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oldbanjo Donating Member (223 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 05:43 AM
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9. It's bound to be in our drinking water
in small levels in the US. With the total number of Plants in the world today the odds are good that this will happen many more times in our future.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 06:17 AM
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10. Makes it's own steam...
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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 10:16 AM
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11. Sought-after by fortune-tellers everywhere ...
... self-illuminating tea-leaves!
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