Radioactive sediment found 155 miles from Japan nuclear crisis zone - Not old bottles

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/12/radioactive-sediment-found-miles-from-japan-nuclear-crisis-zone/

October 12th, 2011
02:46 PM ET

Officials in Yokohama, Japan’s second largest city, are investigating soil samples after a radioactive substance was found in sediment atop an apartment building about 155 miles (250 kilometers) from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, according to news reports.

The discovery has raised concerns that leaked radiation from three Fukushima reactors that suffered meltdowns after the March earthquake and tsunami may be more widespread than thought, The Japan Times reported Wednesday. snip

Strontium-90 has been found in Japan at concentrations up to 20 becquerels before the nuclear crisis, The Japan Times said. The latest discovery found the strontium-90 level at 195 becquerels, according to the paper.

"The radioactive isotope strontium-90 was detected on a rooftop by a private agency responding to a resident's request, The Japan Times reported."

Notice this was not a government sponsored sampling. This is what we'd have to do if this happened here.

sad as it is...folks tried to do their own detection with BP Spill in Gulf. It kind of got shut down. Even some people on the West Coast US tried monitoring the radiation...and that kind of got lost somewhere.

Arnie Gunderson and Fairewinds is attempting to liaison with people to test for radiation here...that's all I have heard.

Our government is certainly doing nothing.

And don't get me started on the criminal destruction in the Gulf...the people of this country (and Japan) deserve SO MUCH better.