[ RadSafe ] I-131 in milk and activity on spinach aroundFukushima

[Mark Ramsay]

Re Spinach...

Is is 'in' or 'in''? 

Rgs

Mark 


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On 20 Mar 2011, at 11:35, "Demetrios Okkalides" <od at tlmq.com> wrote:

> I am puzled with this. Perhaps it seems OK to find I-131 in milk so soon, but in spinach? Can a metal move so fast in a plant's uptake cycle? Does this seem reasonable to you?
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> (Perhaps I should also add that the hysteria here has reached to the point where people are afraid they might also have I-131 in their food.)
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> D.Okkalides
> THEAGENEION Anticancer Hospital
> Thessaloniki
> Greece
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>> Dewey, from CNN-
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>> "Tainted milk was found 30 kilometers (18 1/2 miles) from the plant and spinach was collected as far as 100 kilometers (65 miles) to the south, almost halfway to Tokyo."
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>> and
>> "Very small amounts -- far below the level of concern -- of radioactive iodine were also detected in tap water in Tokyo and most prefectures near the Fukushima Daiichi plant damaged by last week's monster earthquake and tsunami"
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>> George Dowell
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