Published: April 9th, 2011 at 10:18 am ET
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Cesium-137 In Vermont Milk, Jeff McMahon (Forbes blog), Apr. 8 2011:
… Cesium-137 has been found in American milk—in Montpelier, Vermont—for the first time since the Japan nuclear disaster began…
The cesium-137 found in milk in Vermont is the first cesium detected in milk since the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear accident occurred last month. The sample contained 1.9 picoCuries per liter of cesium-137, which falls under the same 3.0 [pCi/L] standard. …
Read the article here.
Read the EPA report here.
Published: April 9th, 2011 at 10:18 am ET
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With a half life of 30 years, you want to call any level safe? Concentrate it into cheese and what’s the level? Serving VT dairy products at the White House? I doubt it.
Fuku Shima
compound, multiple island
good luck, fortune guess, speculation
spout, emit, send forth stripes
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Crap, I had that all spaced out – and the programs squashed it into nonsense.
Fuku
compound, multiple
good luck, fortune
spout, emit, send forth
Shima
island
guess, speculation
stripes
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The two specific characters that make up the word Fukushima (福島) mean “fortune” and “island”. The other meanings like multiple (this fuku- 複), clothes (fuku- 服), blow/emit (technically a verb but in it’s basic form is fuku – 吹く), wipe (another verb – 拭く) don’t apply – they are just homonyms.
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The point was the ironic coincidence of the homonyms. “Emitting Island” is a pretty good name for it. Like “Dodge City” fortuitously reveals its past. Pardon my dark humor, I find it comforting to laugh in the face of disaster.
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Japan bans planting rice in radioactive soil
TOKYO – Fears of radiation spread to rice as the planting season began in Japan, prompting the government to ban its cultivation in contaminated soil as fallout…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110409/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake
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End to Japan nuke crisis is years, a fortune away
“The best solution is to entomb the site for 40, 50, 60 years,” said Arnold Gundersen, who wrote part of the Energy Department manual on decommissioning and runs the U.S.-based environmental consulting company Fairewinds Associates.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110409/ap_on_re_us/as_japan_earthquake_nuclear_endgame
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We need to get rid of these nukes permanently. They are dangerous to all living things, and we have safe alternatives that are being suppressed. For the mean time please protect yourself and family by making sure what you eat and drink is safe.
http://thehealingfrequency.com/whole-house-water-purification-systems/
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Anyone notice that I-131 is at 8.9 in Little Rock, according to the data in that scrolling box?????
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Hope you don’t live there !
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Amazing 8.9 in the milk, 3X the limit. Magical Iodine 131 fell only on the exact grass eaten by herds of dairy cattle and nowhere else. The water was ND. And no other isotopes were detected.
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Nope, I’m in Florida.. I just find it odd that that reading hasn’t made a headline when they’re talking about Boise exceeding the legal limit at 3.
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Florida, We do have dairy’s and bring more beef to market then Texas !
But it’d Spring Break and Summer for all the vacationers, Just like last years Oil and Chemicals, But the beaches are full $$$$
Just step over/swim around all the dead sealife.
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