Published: March 18th, 2011 at 6:55 pm ET
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Radioactive Isotope Detected in California, Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2011 at 6:37 pm EST:
U.S. officials detected the presence of a radioactive isotope in California on Friday that appeared to come from the Fukushima nuclear-power plant in Japan…
U.S. officials say the levels are consistent with their expectations and pose no risk to human health.
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department said in a statement a radiation monitor in Sacramento, Calif., detected minuscule quantities of the radioactive isotope xenon-133. The readings validated similar ones from March 16 and 17 taken from monitors in Washington state, they said. …
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Published: March 18th, 2011 at 6:55 pm ET
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There is no safe minimal exposure limit.
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Even one small particle of this is deadly so there is no safe exposure limit.
The truth is the small particulates are carried by the wind and may fall on you.
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Xenon-133 (brand name Xeneisol, ATC code V09EX03) is an isotope of Xenon. It is a radionuclide that is inhaled to assess pulmonary function, and to image the lungs. It is also often used to image blood flow, particularly in the brain.
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that’s gas;
a nanoparticle contains thousands of atoms;
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Radiation Exposure and Contamination
http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/sec21/ch317/ch317a.html
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National Radiation Map, depicting environmental radiation levels across the USA
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
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National Radiation Map, depicting environmental radiation levels across the USA, updated in real time every minute.
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
updated in real time every minute.
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Monitor Information:
Fixed Monitor Location: OR: PORTLAND
Measurement Start Date/Time: 03/19/2011 12:55:49 AM
Measurement End Date/Time: 03/19/2011 01:55:57 AM
Beta Gross Count Rate (CPM): 13
Gamma Energy Range 2 Gross(CPM): 2367
Gamma Energy Range 3 Gross(CPM): 1085
Gamma Energy Range 4 Gross(CPM): 329
Gamma Energy Range 5 Gross(CPM): 175
Gamma Energy Range 6 Gross(CPM): 118
Gamma Energy Range 7 Gross(CPM): 138
Gamma Energy Range 8 Gross(CPM): 91
Gamma Energy Range 9 Gross(CPM): 37
Gamma Energy Range 10 Gross(CPM): 57
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Allow Java from yellow browser bar,
click on city/ballon marker to receive reading on right of map.
https://cdxnode64.epa.gov/radnet-public/showMap.do
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These Baseline readings normal levels on 03/16/11 (5 – 60) :
SOURCE: http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
37 @12:34 pm MST
23 @1:10 pm MST
30 @ 1:13 pm MST
36 @ 1:16pm MST
34 @ 1:20 PM MST
30 @ 1:23 PM MST
33 @ 1:26 PM MST
39 @ 1:30 PM MST
31 @ 1:33 PM MST
38 @ 1:36 PM MST
30 @ 1:40 PM MST
38 @ 1:43 PM MST
38 @ 2:03 PM MST
31 @ 2:06 PM MST
41 @ 2:09 PM MST
40 @ 2:57 PM MST
36 @ 3:57 PM MST
35 @ 4:35 PM MST
45 @ 4:38 PM MST
42 @ 4:45 PM MST
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XDRFOX: As per usual.. you’re on the ball with this stuff..Thanks
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: )
The “Beta Gross Count Rate (CPM): #’s” line is what we want to pay attention to !
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“U.S. officials say the levels are consistent with their expectations and pose no risk to human health.”
Meanwhile today Obama and family haul ass for a vacation down in Brazil.
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Yes and from there they will go to Bazil for the rest of the week !
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So nice of them to tell us after it passed, but it is still coming and will as lomg as they are on fire or smokeing and some !
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xdrfox
Thanks for your interestiing radiation map link.
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When An ill Wind Blows From Afar! (Like from Japan, Iran or North Korea!)
Surviving Radioactive Fallout & Radiation Contamination from Japan, Iran or North Korea
Also, Mid-East, South Korea, Pakistan, India, China, Russia, Chernobyl, etc.
By Shane Connor
March 12th, 2011
http://www.ki4u.com/illwind.htm
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C.Dodds
There are 2 links, just in case your not trusting to the EPA ! > https://cdxnode64.epa.gov/radnet-public/showMap.do
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
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Fred Fep
I am sure there is much more then JUST xenon-133 in this plume ! Reactors do no produce just one isotope element, Why do you think they would say they have track the one that is unlikely to cause harm ?
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http://www.woweather.com/weather/news/fukushima?LANG=us&VAR=niluhemis133&HH=0&LOOP=1
Check out the 3 locations in top left corner and click LOOP button for each of these to see whats up.
You can choose iodine, xenon or caesium clouds from this radar also checkout the right side of this page for some more radars. Stay indoors while your area is affected and wear gloves this summer while doing lawn care. Stay out of the rain and snow ! Don’t let the moisture touch your skin ! Long live the humans !
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Lol. My family is retarded and says there is no problem with Japan. My mother is more concerned about her (Toyota) car parts. She says it will be impossible to find a part now. I said what about the people getting sick and dying? What about you mom ? What about your grandchildren? She cares about car parts and what i told her about car parts is ( Toyota is made in the USA. ) You must watch USA news huh ?
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We need more eugenics to weed out all the idiots im affraid. People will believe a myth in this world for their entire life before they believe the scientific facts. Someone could spend millions of dollars to prove a fact and someone who even went to college for 4 yrs and graduated in top of their class still cannot make an understanding hypothesis about a simple subject. Something besides this Xenon-133 is in the air and I think it’s stupidity.
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Goodluck with what “you” do in life. Be kind to your environment and other species including your own. Trust me; it will come back and bite you on the ass in a gentle way.
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It is not just iodine-131 and cesium-137 that are in the ocean, in Japan’s foods, in the water supply, in the air, etc…There are *dozens* of radioisotopes floating about. This is a partial list of isotopes that are most certainly in and around Tokyo:
Krypton 85, Krypton 85m, Rubidium 86, Krypton 87, Rubidium 87, Krypton 88, Strontium 89, Strontium 90, Strontium 91, Yttrium 91, Yttrium 92, Yttrium 93, Zirconium 93, Zirconium 95, Niobium 95, Zirconium 97, Niobium 97, Ruthenium 103, and Ruthenium 105. [To visualize the decay-chain of the mass 83 through 105 isotopes ... see trilinear chart of nuclides] http://www.idealist.ws/trilinear2.pdf
To complete the list of radioactive pollutants in Japan’s biosphere, we must add radiotelluriums, radioiodines, radioceriums, radiocesiums, radiobariums, and other radioactive gases such as Argon 39, Argon 37, Carbon 14, radioactive carbon dioxide (14CO2), and tritium, and finally sea-salt-transmuted chlorine-36.
http://www.idealist.ws/index.php#statecrisis
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Hey, my list is bigger than your list, although I have discovered a previously unknown isotope – a combination of all below – called WeAreAllScrewedium:
http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/admission-of-more-types-of-fission-products-emitted-by-fukushima/
A Partial list of Fission Products:
Various radio active isotopes of:
Hydrogen
(Tritium)
Beryllium
Carbon 14
Silicon 32
Phosphorus 32 (activation product)
Sulphur 35
Chlorine 36
Argon
Potassium
Calcium
Scandium 46
Vanadium 50
Manganese 54
Iron
Cobalt 60
Nickel
Zinc 65
Selenium
Krypton
Rubidium 87
Strontium DISCLOSED WEEK 4
Yttrium
Yttrium
Zirconium
Niobium
Molybdenu
Technetium 99
Ruthenium
Rhodium
Palladium 107
Silver
Cadmium
Indium
Antimony
Tellurium
Iodine 129
Iodine 131 DISCLOSED WEEK 1
Cesium DISCLOSED WEEK 1
Barium 137
Lanthanum 138
Cerium
Praseodymium
Neodymium 144
Promethium 147
Samarium
Europium
Gadolinium
Terbium
Dysprosium 159
Holmium 166
Thulium
Lutetium
Hafnium
Tantalum
Tungsten
Rhenium
Osmium 194
Iridium
Platinum 193
Thallium
Lead
Bismuth
Polonium
Astatine 217
Radon
Francium
Radium
Actinium
Thorium
Protactinium
Uranium
Neptunium
Plutonium (FUEL, TRANSURANIC) DISCLOSED WEEK 3
Americium
Curium
Berkelium
Californium
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVCWGc173ic&feature=player_embedded
In a nuclear explosion the radioactive solids and radioactive gases both escape into the environment. In an operating nuclear reactor, steel vessels, corrosive-prone cladding and pipes and the containment building itself keep some, but not all, gaseous radioactive chemicals from escaping into the air and the soil and water.
But every single radioactive gas produced at the containment-less Fukushima reactors and outdoor swimming ponds for fuel rods has escaped. These gases escaped via leaky or manually opened pipes and vents and from cracked or melted fuel rods that blew out gases created via low or re-criticality fissioning or neutron activity from plutonium or uranium.
The leaked gases are no different in nature than what is released into the environment if you conducted an open air hydrogen nuclear (thermonuclear) explosion in the rain – the solid radioactive chemicals mostly would be suppressed, but the gases would leak out and float around an entire country or hemisphere. The gases would later precipitate into radioactive solids – or stay as radioactive gas in air.
Since all of the above radioisotopes are or once were gases, they had (and as long as they are being still released at Fukushima, they still have) the potential to travel large distances from the reactors, even further than Tokyo. Radioactive solids attach to dust particles and can travel across the globe with ease. That even includes plutonium.
http://www.idealist.ws/index.php#statecrisis
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Watch Out ! He says !
Distraught australian for accurate perspective/ magnitude of japanese crisis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MognnB0g56Y&feature=player_embedded
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