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FBaggins

(26,756 posts)
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 10:15 AM Feb 2014

Woods Hole Detects Only 1950's A-Bomb Radiation - Fukushima Plume Yet to Arrive

Search online for information on Pacific Ocean radiation from Fukushima, and the search results fill up with fear filled claims the Ocean is burning up from the radiation, and we're all about to die. On Tuesday, initial results were announced by an effort organized by the Woods Hole Institute showing trace amounts of Cesium-137 and other radioactive elements in the Pacific, at levels scientists say

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Seeing this, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is hoping to organize dozens of seawater sampling sites along the western coast of North America. They've launched a website, Our Radioactive Ocean, which is crowdfunding an an organization which will do the necessary radiation monitoring necessary to bring the light of truth to this problem.

The current funding has supported seawater sampling at 8 sites from the Seattle area down to San Diego.

In all cases the level of Cesium-134 is below detection, and while Cesium-137 is detectable its concentration is about 1.3 Bq per cubic meters. That Cesium-137 concentration is exactly the level that's left over from atomic bomb testing in the 1950's. Meaning the scientists have yet to detect any radioactive material from Fukushima on the US West Coast.

http://www.examiner.com/article/woods-hole-detects-only-1950-s-a-bomb-radiation-fukushima-plume-yet-to-arrive
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Woods Hole Detects Only 1950's A-Bomb Radiation - Fukushima Plume Yet to Arrive (Original Post) FBaggins Feb 2014 OP
That reminds me, wasn't a project kind of like this happening around Japan? phantom power Feb 2014 #1
It's out there. FBaggins Feb 2014 #4
“bring the light of truth to this problem.” notemason Feb 2014 #2
By the way, I have been given a vision of the future phantom power Feb 2014 #3
Yep FBaggins Feb 2014 #5

phantom power

(25,966 posts)
1. That reminds me, wasn't a project kind of like this happening around Japan?
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 10:51 AM
Feb 2014

People with radiation detectors, reporting their readings, etc? Whatever happened to that data?

FBaggins

(26,756 posts)
4. It's out there.
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 11:13 AM
Feb 2014

There are a number of sites IIRC.

But I wouldn't call it "like this". This is a legitimate scientific organization using quality gear... not a bunch of DIYers with personal equipment that they don't even understand (as with the youtube video of the guy on a California beach deciding that he had discovered Fukushima radiation).

I'd call this crowd-funded... rather than crowd-sourced.

notemason

(299 posts)
2. “bring the light of truth to this problem.”
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 10:56 AM
Feb 2014

Amen to that; hopefully we'll receive pure uncontaminated data and can draw our own conclusions. Had already bookmarked that site; will follow. Thanks for sharing.

phantom power

(25,966 posts)
3. By the way, I have been given a vision of the future
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 11:03 AM
Feb 2014

The data will confirm that Fukushima is having no impact on the oceans. But it won't matter, because people have already made up their minds that Fukushima is The Worse Environmental Disaster Ever. Those people will decide the data can't be trusted.

Meanwhile:




FBaggins

(26,756 posts)
5. Yep
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 11:15 AM
Feb 2014

It "can't be trusted" even though this is the same guy that the fringe invited to speak at their conference just last year.

If you watched the video... you could tell that he had trouble keeping a straight face with some of their nonsense.

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