[ RadSafe ] Sr-90 in Maple Syrup, Ra-226 in mineral waters, Cs-137 in woodash, etc. was: Re: Re. Tritium found near VT Yankee (panic time!)

Wed Sep 14 20:55:32 CDT 2011

Hello all,

I also can't stomach [with stomach serving as a verb] any pancakes or
waffles without authentic [ hopefully 100% Vermont ] maple syrup. A few Bq
of residual fallout Sr-90 should never interfere with enjoying the sweet sap
of the maple tree concentrated 35:1 into real maple syrup. 

The corporation executives which foist high fructose corn based "pancake
syrup" with artificial maple flavoring on the public, or any person who
would shun real maple syrup because of minute levels of Sr-90 should be
sentenced to watching 24 hours straight of Busby nuclear nonsense videos on
YouTube with their eyelids taped open.

As is found in a common valediction [antonym of salutation for those
unfamiliar with the term] on radsafe, Cheers!

Stewart Farber, MS Public Health
SAFarber at optonline.net

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-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Michael
LaFontaine, P. Phys.
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:44 PM
To: stanford at stanforddosimetry.com; The International Radiation Protection
(Health Physics) Mailing List
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Sr-90 in Maple Syrup, Ra-226 in mineral waters,
Cs-137 in woodash, etc. was: Re: Re. Tritium found near VT Yankee (panic
time!)

Vermont maple syrup is still as welcome in my pantry as home-grown 
Ontario or Quebec. I think the whole "organic" food craze will  turn 
out to be one of the biggest frauds of the 21st century.

Lots of maple syrup on tomorrow's pancakes!

Mike

ps - On a serious note, did any employees receive excessive doses as 
a result of the furnace explosion at the France nuclear-waste 
processing plant?

At 06:27 PM 14/09/2011, you wrote:
>Excellent, as usual.
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Neill Stanford, CHP
>Stanford Dosimetry, LLC
>360 733 7367
>360 933 1794 (fax)
>www.stanforddosimetry.com
>stanford at stanforddosimetry.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stewart Farber [mailto:SAFarber at optonline.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:29 PM
>To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
>Subject: [ RadSafe ] Sr-90 in Maple Syrup, Ra-226 in mineral waters, Cs-137
>in woodash, etc. was: Re: Re. Tritium found near VT Yankee (panic time!)
>
>Fun facts on environmental radioactivity:
>
>As far as any State Health Department or self-serving politicians in New
>England expressing concern about trivial levels of H-3 in river water,  or
>Sr-90 in fish from any river -upstream or downstream of a nuclear power
>plant, perhaps they should realize how the presence of fallout
>radioactivity in maple syrup, or Ra-226 and Ra-228 in the mineral waters
>being marketed by private companies in their States could be highlighted,
>much to the detriment of commercial endeavors ---IF one were so inclined.
>
>Many years ago, I used to review radioactivity measured in every media
>routinely sampled [and in some media like wood-ash not sampled as part of
>REMP programs] around nuclear plants in New England including Vermont
>Yankee. There was,  and still will be measurable low-levels of Sr-90 in
>maple syrup from fallout due to nuclear bomb testing prior to the Test Ban
>Treaty in 1963-- with dose implications dwarfing by many, many orders of
>magnitude the dose consequences from any trace levels of H-3 claimed to
>have been found in the Connecticut River for example.
>
>If trivial doses from things like H-3 in river water are an issue of
>concern to regulators or politicians given the minute doses possible,
>let's put the dose consequences of things like:
>
>-- Sr-90 in commercial VT maple syrup due to bomb testing,
>-- or Ra-226 in commercial VT bottled waters due to God & the Big Bang
>-- or Cs-137 due to bomb testing [ present in 10,000 or so cubic meters of
>ash from small VT wood burning power plants] at levels up to 9,000 or so
>pCi/kg ash [300+  Bq/kg ash] being spread on home gardens and on large
>commercial organic farming co-op farms in Northeastern Vermont, on the
>table, as it were,  for honest evaluation.
>
>It's totally amusing [on a certain level] that stores like Whole Foods  or
>other Organic food product retailers are almost consistently strongly
>anti-nuclear power, and against food irradiation but are selling Organic
>produce being fertilized with wood ash with elevated levels of Cs-137 from
>nuclear test fallout. Organic food and organic product sales is now a $27
>billion a year market in the US. How much radioactive wood ash is used as
>fertilizer in organic farming to replenish depleted potassium, and how
>would many consumers like to know woodash spread on the fields where their
>crops are grown contain elevated levels of Cs-137 [and Sr-90]? I doubt
>Organic food consumers would be terribly thrilled with knowing this fact.
>
>How fast would VT agencies or politicians be to criticize a trivial level
>of H-3 in river water with essentially zero dose implications, or in a
>trivial amount of groundwater flowing into the CT river,  if  applying the
>same standards to commercial products in their State were put under the
>same microscope? It would be fascinating to witness politicians and
>certain State agencies scramble to minimize the significance of the above
>sources of nuclear test and natural radiation exposure from their
>commercial products if the public knew what they were consuming.
>
>Stewart Farber, MS Public Health
>
>Farber Medical Solutions, LLC
>Bridgeport, CT 06604
>SAFarber at optonline.net
>203-441-8433
>=====================
>
>
>On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:17:42 -0400, Fredrick L. Miller
><millerfl at tricity.wsu.edu> wrote:
>
> > The Vermont Department of Health would be well advised to stay upstream
> > of any and all universities engaged in research within the United States
> > lest they send themselves into a blind panic over this imminent public
> > health menace.  Best they stick to testing syrup and making sure the
> > quaint factor is turned up high enough for tourist season.
> >
> > Fred Miller
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
> > [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Steven Dapra
> > Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 7:55 PM
> > To: radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu
> > Subject: [ RadSafe ] Tritium found near VT Yankee (panic time!).
> >
> > Aug. 18
> >
> >       The article begins:
> >
> > "The Vermont Department of Health said it has found detectable traces
> > of radioactive tritium from the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in
> > the Connecticut River."
> >
> >       Has anyone ever found non-detectable traces of anything,
> > radioactive or not?
> >
> > http://news.yahoo.com/radioactive-tritium-found-river-near-vermont-yanke
> > e-plant-184050307.html
> >
> > Steven Dapra
> >
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