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Title: Japan's ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times legal limit
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URL Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationw ... clear-20110406,0,2697428.story
Published: Apr 5, 2011
Author: Kenji Hall and Julie Makinen, Los Angele
Post Date: 2011-04-05 14:47:56 by Rek
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Japan's ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times legal limit High readings in fish prompt the government to establish a maximum level for safe consumption. April 5, 2011, 4:39 a.m. Reporting from Tokyo— The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it had found radioactive iodine at 7.5 million times the legal limit in a seawater sample taken near the facility, and government officials imposed a new health limit for radioactivity in fish. The reading of iodine-131 was recorded Saturday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. Another sample taken Monday found the level to be 5 million times the legal limit. The Monday samples also were found to contain radioactive cesium at 1.1 million times the legal limit. The exact source of the radiation was not immediately clear, though Tepco has said that highly contaminated water has been leaking from a pit near the No. 2 reactor. The utility initially believed that the leak was coming from a crack, but several attempts to seal the crack failed. SNIP
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#1. To: Rek (#0)
Obama is rewriting the definition of radioactive contamination. No matter how much radioactivity there is, it will never reach "unsafe" levels. All hail the Magic Kenyan! EPA to raise limits for radiation exposure while Canada turns off fallout detectors
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... "Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Uh...you DO realize that rhe "government" here is the Japanese government? If it matters, it's funnier if you don't...
Don't bother Rudy Emmm, glow in the dark shrimp....mmmmmmm
I hear you knockin...go back where you been....
Cannibal!!!
Don't bother Rudy There's not much we can do about Jap standards, but we should have some reality based ones for the US. Based on medicine and science, instead of bullbarak. They're just cooking the numbers, without any regard for real health hazards to Americans.
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... government officials imposed a new health limit for radioactivity in fish
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#2. To: Rek (#0)
#3. To: hondo68 (#1)
Obama is rewriting the definition of radioactive contamination. No matter how much radioactivity there is, it will never reach "unsafe" levels. All hail the Magic Kenyan!
Inarticulate Insights,
By Boofer
#4. To: Rek (#0)
#5. To: Badeye (#4)
Inarticulate Insights,
By Boofer
#6. To: war (#3)
(Edited)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
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