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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
(12,158 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)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
(26,339 posts)We were planning a trip there this summer. Not now.