[ RadSafe ] Fwd: [New post] Florida report showed highest level of Fukushima radioactive material

[Mattias Lantz]

How convenient to modify the text in the article abstract from

" While these levels are not health concerns, they were well above the 
detection capability of the radionuclide monitoring systems within the 
International Monitoring System of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban 
Treaty."

to

" ... [These levels] were well above the detection capability of the 
radionuclide monitoring systems within the International Monitoring 
System [IMS] of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty [CTBTO]..."

By the way, the article is almost two years old, from December 2012. And 
the reported values are well within the range of data reported 
elsewhere, for instance the peak value of I-131 in Stockholm was 2 
mBq/m^3 on January 31, 2011. They must be bored at ENENews, trying to 
cook the same soup twice...

Best wishes,
Mattias Lantz

-- 
Mattias Lantz - Researcher
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Division of Applied Nuclear Physics
Uppsala University, Box 516
SE - 751 20, Uppsala, Sweden
email:  mattias.lantz at physics.uu.se





On 09/27/2014 01:49 PM, Roger Helbig wrote:
> This hype seems pretty far fetched.  Guess that the normal
> anti-nuclear lying campaign is falling short so they have had to raise
> the ante.
>
> Roger Helbig
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> From: nuclear-news <comment-reply at wordpress.com>
> Date: Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 2:14 AM
> Subject: [New post] Florida report showed highest level of Fukushima
> radioactive material
> To: rwhelbig at gmail.com
>
>
> Christina MacPherson posted: "Newly released data shows Florida hit
> with highest level of radioactive material from Fukushima measured
> anywhere in world outside Japan -- #1 out of more than 1,500 test
> results -- Total radioactive iodine was up to 500% of amount reported
> http://dublinsmi"
> Respond to this post by replying above this line
>
> New post on nuclear-news
>
> Florida report showed highest level of Fukushima radioactive material
>
> by Christina MacPherson
>
> Newly released data shows Florida hit with highest level of
> radioactive material from Fukushima measured anywhere in world outside
> Japan -- #1 out of more than 1,500 test results -- Total radioactive
> iodine was up to 500% of amount reported
> http://dublinsmickdotcom.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/newly-released-data-shows-florida-hit-with-highest-level-of-radioactive-material-from-fukushima-measured-anywhere-in-world-outside-japan-1-out-of-more-than-1500-test-results-tot/
>
>   September 27, 2014 Analysis of data from sensitive U.S. monitoring
> stations for the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor accident, Journal
> of Environmental Radioactivity: [A] major nuclear event at the
> Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station... resulted in a breach of the
> nuclear fuel integrity and release of radioactive fission products to
> the environment. Fission products started to arrive in the United
> States via atmospheric transport on March 15, 2011... Atmospheric
> activity concentrations of 131I reached levels of 3 x 10^-2 Bq/m³
> [30,592 microBq/m³] in Melbourne, FL. The noble gas 133Xe reached
> atmospheric activity concentrations in Ashland, KS of 17 Bq/m³... [These
> levels] were well above the detection capability of the radionuclide
> monitoring systems within the International Monitoring System [IMS] of
> the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty [CTBTO]... it should be noted
> that non-IMS stations located in Richland, WA detected the event one
> day earlier than any other systems within the US IMS network... The
> iodine detections reported in this manuscript are solely
> representative of the particulate iodine atmospheric activity
> concentration. It is recognized that the gas phase iodine was not
> collected via aerosol filtration [which] would be useful to assess the
> event and to quantify the total radioiodine atmospheric activity
> concentration.
>
> According to remarks included with CTBTO data recently released by the
> United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic
> Radiation, the total iodine-131 in the air was up to 500% of the
> amount shown.
>
> Read entire article here:
>
> http://enenews.com/newly-released-data-shows-florida-hit-highest-level-radioactive-material-fukushima-anywhere-world-japan-1-list-1500-measurements-actual-amount-air-500-amount-reported
>
> Christina MacPherson | September 27, 2014 at 9:14 am | Categories:
> radiation, USA | URL: http://wp.me/phgse-i4d
>
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