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IScreamSundays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 11:28 AM
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Radioactive cesium detected from 2 whales+
Edited on Wed Jun-15-11 11:34 AM by IScreamSundays
Source: AP

KUSHIRO, Japan, June 14 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Radioactive cesium was detected from two minke whales caught off the coast of Kushiro, Hokkaido, in Japan's so-called research whaling, a whalers' association said Tuesday.

While the level of the radioactive material remained below the temporarily set upper limit, the association officials said during a press conference in Kushiro that the contamination must have been caused by the continuing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and that they will closely monitor future developments.

During the research whaling that started in late April, 17 whales were caught, and researchers examined six of them. Of the six, two were found tainted with 31 becquerels and 24.3 becquerels of cesium per kilogram of whale meat, they said.

The upper limit tentatively stands at 500 becquerels per kilogram.

Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9NRIS780&show_article=1
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 11:34 AM
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1. Yuk
Who would eat glow in the dark whale meat? Not me, buckos. Not me.
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liberation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 11:49 AM
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3. Who would eat whale meat, period?
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Downwinder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 11:43 AM
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2. Will this mean the Japanese will quit eating them?
Remember the "Nuke the Whales" slogan? Might really save them.
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Duppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 01:46 PM
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4. we can only hope.
:(
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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 02:03 PM
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5. "The upper limit tentatively stands at 500 becquerels per kilogram."
and when it hits 500 Bq/kg they wil raise it again - tentatively.

It's in the Japanese coastal marine food web - and no one can deny that now.
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