Radiation plume to start reaching California today March 17.

bananas

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Thu Mar-17-11 08:18 AM
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Radiation plume to start reaching California today March 17.

Edited on Thu Mar-17-11 08:21 AM by bananas

Via LBN:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4774552

Scientists Project Path of Radiation Plume
Source: NYTimes

A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday.

Get Science News From The New York Times � Health and nuclear experts emphasize that radiation in the plume will be diluted as it travels and, at worst, would have extremely minor health consequences in the United States, even if hints of it are ultimately detectable. In a similar way, radiation from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 spread around the globe and reached the West Coast of the United States in ten days, its levels measurable but minuscule.

The projection, by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, an arm of the United Nations in Vienna, gives no information about actual radiation levels but only shows how a radioactive plume would probably move and disperse.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/science/17plume.html

The NYT article has an animation of the plume, you can see the first wisps of the plume over California on March 17 2:00AM (not sure what time zone they're using).

Animation: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/science/plume-graphic.html

March 17 2:00AM: (frame 39 of the animation)

March 18 2:00 AM: (frame 47 of the animation)

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KamaAina

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Thu Mar-17-11 12:27 PM
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1. Note how it swerves to avoid the Bay Area

God/ess must really love us! :-)

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Blacksheep214

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Thu Mar-17-11 12:32 PM
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2. Thanks for that.

Since we are going to get rained on along with being nuked, there's only one fitting Hollywood thing to say.

I'M MELTING!!

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ozdawn

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Thu Mar-17-11 01:52 PM
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3. measurable but minuscule?

Levels "measurable but minuscule" is a complete contradiction of terms as there is no "safe" level of Plutonium - just 1 isotope can kill you.

So what I'd like someone to explain is where exactly all those radioactive isotopes of cesium and plutonium are going to go? They just magically disappear when they reach the US? Somehow they just evaporate over the ocean? The half-life of Cesium is about 30-years and Plutonium 24,000 years.

While they may so "dispersed" in the air as to not set off any warnings on all the geiger counters everywhere - the overall levels are still increased proving the fallout is present and going to land somewhere. And no amount of "monitoring" is going to tell you if you just inhaled that 1 Plutonium isotope that is going to cause lung cancer. Or that 1 stray isotope on that head of lettuce you just ate for lunch or glass of water you just drank. Now really just a game of Russian roulette every time you eat, drink, breathe or otherwise come in contact with this fallout - good luck! No wonder cancer just surpassed heart attacks for the first time as the world's leading cause of death.

And they are still monitoring the fallout present from Chernobyl all across eastern Europe to this day 25-years later - now its America's turn being directly downwind from Japan...

Chernobyl's Lessons for Japan
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/ADGO-8EZMKL?OpenDocument

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CountAllVotes

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Thu Mar-17-11 08:07 PM
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4. thanks for this information

:hi: and Welcome to the Democratic Underground! :D

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mackerel

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Sat Mar-19-11 01:42 AM
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5. A friend sent me some information on good natural foods to

eat that help with radiation.

http://www.wisewomantradition.com/wisewomanweb/2011/03/surviving-radiation-the-wise-woman-way.html

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