[ RadSafe ] Scientists: Test West Coast for Fukushima radiation

Roger Helbig rwhelbig at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 21:33:57 CDT 2014


They are obtaining the samples from trained volunteers and doing the
testing - take a look at this website -

http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=83397&tid=3622&cid=94989

which has link to

http://ourradioactiveocean.org/

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Brad Keck <bradkeck at mac.com> wrote:
> Apparently some "scientists" are crowd-sourcing the samples from volunteers along the west coast, according to the report.
>
>   What could possibly go wrong?
>
> Bradly D Keck
>
>
>> On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Jim Darrough <darrougj at onid.orst.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Gosh I hate when they make misstatements like that. A lot of my friends ask
>> me questions about it when this happens.
>>
>> Jim Darrough
>> Oregon State University
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
>> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Joel C.
>> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 9:59 PM
>> To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
>> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Scientists: Test West Coast for Fukushima radiation
>>
>>
>> USA Today has a piece on Fukushima contamination.  Here's a sample:
>> "In Oregon, state park rangers take quarterly samples of surf water and sand
>> at three locations along the coast. The water is analyzed for Cesium 137 and
>> iodine 131. Both of those already exist in the ocean at low levels from
>> nuclear testing decades ago."
>> Boy, that I-131 is sure persistent!
>>
>>
>> --- Joel I. Cehn
>> joelc at alum.wpi.edu
>> Radiation Info
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