Published: April 2nd, 2012 at 2:56 pm ET
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Title: Dartmouth scientists track radioactive iodine from Japan nuclear reactor meltdown
Source: Dartmouth College
Date: April 2, 2012
[...] The paper reports that testing in New Hampshire’s Mink Brook watershed during March through May 2011 showed the amount of radioactive iodine deposition in the soil was minimal, with calculations revealing the total amount to be on the order of 6,000 atoms per square meter. Landis comments that “at these levels, it is unlikely that this is going to cause measurable health consequences.”
However, sampling of Mink Brook stream sediments showed a doubling of iodine concentrations relative to what was found in soils. But even in these concentrations, stream and river transport are expected to result in significant dilution. [...]
Abstract
Title: Surficial redistribution of fallout 131iodine in a small temperate catchment
Source: National Academy of Sciences
Authors: Joshua D. Landisa, Nathan T. Hamma, Carl E. Renshawa, W. Brian Dadea, Francis J. Magilliganb, and John D. Gartnera
Date: March 13, 2012
Published: April 2nd, 2012 at 2:56 pm ET
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"…"Due to its long half-life and continued release from ongoing nuclear energy production, [iodine-129] is perpetually accumulating in the environment and poses a growing radiological risk," the authors point out.
The production rate of these two isotopes in a nuclear reactor occurs at a fixed ratio of 3 parts iodine-131 to one part iodine-129. The two substances travel together, so the presence of the easily detectable isotope also signals the presence of the longer-lived one. "If you have a recent event like Fukushima, you are going to have both present. The iodine-131 is going to decay away pretty quickly over the course of weeks, but the iodine-129 is there forever, essentially," Landis says. However, he explains, "Once the iodine-131 decays, you lose your ability to track the migration of either isotope."…."
nasty little isotope.. little mentioned!!??
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GET MAD!
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First time I've heard mention of that 129…I practically live in these streambeds in the summer, so I'm pretty alarmed by this!
"Unlikely to" and "Measurable" are words used to dilute a binding statement, And somewhere along the way, college professors turned into politicians for their corporate grant department funding
Seems Like Everyone In Power IS A Sellout! (Except Bernie Sanders, Ed Markey and Dennis Kucinich)
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what I take this to mean is that, "well, my kids' private school is really expensive, so I can't risk my job and tell you of the other nasty isotopes that we found like uranium and plutonium that will be around for millions of years past twenty, but hey, this is more than most people are going to tell you, and it will dilute into the drinking water anyway, bygones!"
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A contact of mine detected plutonium in his street in Boston, near downtown last year.
Arclight, there are many nasty little isotopes, and few of them are ever mentioned. What should be mentioned is public ignorance.
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Ignorance is bliss, and I am not feeling very blissful right about now.
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With all the radioactive iodine being released over the past year, I'd be curious how to find out if doctors and veterinarians are experiencing a rise in thyroid issues. My previously healthy mixed breed dog just had thyroid surgery to remove a tumor (I'm in California). Related? Who knows, and impossible to prove. And that's what these nuke bastards count on.
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California is the new Belarus.
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Of course related…I pray health and long life for your mutt…please share your story with a little FukU background info with every celebrity, vet, magazine, website who will listen…this stuff Needs to go Mainstream!
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Why don't they check for other isotopes ??
They know they are there, just like the non-testing in Japan !
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Well, xdr, where do you think this little study leaves Florida??? The state is essentially flat, so the iodine 129 is not going anywhere unless it is being transferred by the soil to food grown here, where it will then be ingested and transported in humans. Oh, how bloody the hands of those who have deceived us and yet remain silent.
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NoPrevarication,
Plant City's fields, … Florida raises more cattle then Texas, Water melons this season beware ! Oh what a summer to see !
Anyone notice the clouds seem to be very different frpm before !
Many seem still to have hue's and multicolored lightly in them and the palest blue shies with such gentle looking clouds !
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Many people believe it was named for the flora (especially vegetables and fruits, as well as tropical houseplants) grown at plant nurseries in its tropical Gulf Coast climate. However, it was actually named after prominent railroad developer, Henry B. Plant[4] (see Plant System).
Plant City is known as the winter strawberry capital of the world[5] and hosts the annual Florida Strawberry Festival in the late winter (usually in February or early March), which is attended by people from all over the United States as well as many people from around the world. Wishnatzki Farms, the largest producer and shipper of strawberries in Florida
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_City
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Test everything, air water food pet supplies. Be informed, be prepared. No one is going to tell us anything (like the truth) in order to save the corporate agenda. Melon cantalope from Honduras tested triple background radiation. I didn't eat it.
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Honduras borders the Caribbean Sea on the north coast and the Pacific Ocean on the south through the Gulf of Fonseca. It mostly lies between latitudes 13° and 17°N (a small area lies south of 13°, and the Swan Islands are north of 17°), and longitudes 83° and 90°W.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduras
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