Radioactive water from Japan's Fukushima power plant reaches Canada
Source: UPI
Researchers say radioactive cesium isotopes from Japan's severely damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant have made their way to the waters just off the coast of Canada.
Scientists confirmed the arrival of radioactive Fukushima water at the annual American Geophysical Union's Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu today, but pointed out that the concentrations of the two isotopes were still well below safe drinking levels.
Researchers from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography have been continuously sampling water off the coast of Vancouver, British Columbia, since 2011.
“These levels are still well below maximum permissible concentrations in drinking water in Canada for caesium-137 of 10,000 becquerels per cubic metre of water -- so, it’s clearly not an environmental or human-health radiological threat,” Bedford’s Dr. John Smith told BBC News.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2014/02/25/Radioactive-water-from-Japans-Fukushima-power-plant-reaches-Canada/8711393354629/
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You sure memorize your lines well, don't you?
...or so the "experts" on DU told us.
Have you noticed that whenever there is a new release of radioactivity in our environment,
all the experts are quick to tell us that this incident is below a thresh hold that can cause harm to us.
They will say stuff like:
"This is less radioactivity than you receive from a dental x-ray!"
What if I already had two dental x-rays this year?
Exposure to radiation is CUMULATIVE,
and ANY release of radiation at ANY level always ADDS to what we are already exposed to.
The LESSON of Fukushima
As long as we continue to use Nuclear Power,
Fukushima and worse WILL happen again,
and again,
and again.
Man has never produced a Fail Safe machine.
are they going to be able to stop this catastrophe anytime soon?
