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Highest Yet: UCB finds 13+ pCi/l of Cesium-137 in store-bought milk from San Francisco Bay Area

Published: April 20th, 2011 at 4:41 pm ET
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UCB Milk Sampling Results, University of California, Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering:

Here’s how UCB describes the latest milk findings: “The store-bought milk levels of I-131, Cs-134, and Cs-137 are showing definite signs of leveling off.”

1 Bq = 27.03 pCi [picocuries]

Published: April 20th, 2011 at 4:41 pm ET
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11 comments to Highest Yet: UCB finds 13+ pCi/l of Cesium-137 in store-bought milk from San Francisco Bay Area

  • majia
    April 20, 2011 at 4:43 pm

    Dr Helen Caldicott on Scope and Severity of Fukushima
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITrXVJMKeQ&feature=share

    Helen Caldicott explains scope and severity of Fukushima situation

    There have been 3 hydrogen explosions

    2 cooling pools are dry and burning because the casing for pellets burns when exposed to air

    Each cooling pool has 10 to 20 times as much radiation as in the reactors

    In each reactor core is 1000 times as much long lived radiation as produced by the Hiroshima bomb

    1 millionth of gram of Plutonium will give you cancer if inhaled

    There are 250 kilograms of Plutonium in each reactor (only 2.5 kilograms needed to make a bomb)

    Plutonium is escaping into the atmosphere


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  • god
    April 20, 2011 at 5:23 pm

    It seems almost unbelievable that corporations are allowed to engage in activities that could threaten the health of a large portion of the people on the planet. Radiation is the scariest, but it is the same for many other corporate enterprises that put carcinogens in our environment. Look how fast they are permitting deep-water drilling again in the Gulf of Mexico, with virtually no change in our ability to stop a well, and a report that concludes blowout preventers don’t work. Fukushima is a very risky situation and I don’t think we’ve seen the worst of it. We need to decentralize the generation of power. and stop breeding.


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    • billyedtimmy
      April 20, 2011 at 5:59 pm

      “…and stop breeding.”

      Therein lies the ultimate solution, but for whatever reason (narcissism, self-loathing, etc..), we continue to justify proliferating ourselves to no end. The movie ‘Idiocracy’ will come to fruition, there’s no doubt left in my mind.


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  • Monitor X
    April 20, 2011 at 5:27 pm

    The title is confusing. If you add up all the bacquerels from the best by date 4/21, you’d get almost 2 Bq/L. Since 1 pCi/L = 37 Bq/L, how do you get 13 pCi/L? It should be a fraction of one pCi/L. Just want to get the facts right before I react to it.


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  • psky
    April 20, 2011 at 5:58 pm

    In addition, we get

    .49 bq/l of I-131 x 27 pCi/bq = 13.2447 pCi/l of I-131
    .27 bq/l of Cs-134 x 27 pCi/bq = 7.29 pCi/l of Cs-134

    Total dose is 33.8 pCi/l.


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  • Noah
    April 21, 2011 at 1:19 am

    AREAS WHOSE FOOD PRODUCTS MAY NOW CARRY RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT
    Helpful Quote from Vesica.org

    The Entirety of the Northern Hemisphere around the world is affected by fallout, as well as the Pacific Ocean.

    Most Serious: Japan, Pacific Ocean, and Pacific Rim States

    Most Contaminated food areas of North America (based on fallout wind spread patterns charted by European scientific research agencies) in order of likely intensity of contamination, starting with the most contaminated:

    Entire Pacific Coast (note that much of the produce in North America comes from this region, especially California)
    Northern U.S. States close to Canada, and Canadian areas close to the U.S. (including Toronto etc.)
    Eastern States
    Central States of the U.S., and Far Northern areas of Canada

    SAFEST AREAS OF ORIGIN FOR FOOD PRODUCTS

    The majority of contamination is in the northern hemisphere and the Pacific Ocean region. Most of the Southern Hemisphere has little to no fallout (the exception is the Southern Hemisphere in the Pacific; Australia for example is finding radioactive fish in the ocean, so although they may not get much atmospheric fallout they are affected by the massive contamination of the Pacific Ocean.)

    Also note that radioactive contamination is being found on non-food products being imported from Japan.

    Safest Areas of Origin for food products:
    Central America (avoid items from the Pacific Coast area of Mexico)
    South America
    Africa

    Europe is also far less contaminated that North America, although it is also experiencing significant fallout; so it is a better source for products than North America, however not as good as Southern Hemisphere sources. (However some South American produce may contain high levels of pesticides not allowed to be used in the U.S. or Canada.)

    ITEMS OF SPECIAL CONCERN FROM AFFECTED AREAS

    Most affected:

    All Ocean-Derived Products from the Pacific Ocean: the Fukushima accident dumped millions of times the normal background levels of radiation into the Pacific, where it is affecting the entire ocean (most toxic near Japan and bordering areas, but now reaching to the US West Coast: debris from the Tsunami in Japan is also expected to start washing up on the West Coast in the near future.) There are already reports of Pacific Fish showing radioactive contamination.
    This indicates a need to be cautious regarding:
    All Pacific Ocean Fish
    Sea Salt or Ocean Minerals derived from the Pacific
    All Pacific Seaweed and Sea Vegetables (order Atlantic Ocean seaweed at http://www.theseaweedman.com )

    Milk and all Dairy Products (butter, cheese etc.) from all animals: Cows, Goats, and Sheep (Dairy products have the most intense immediate absorption of radiation from fallout). Radioactive contamination of milk has been found throughout the United States, especially on the West Coast.

    Any plant with a large surface area exposed to the air while growing: The most intense radiation absorption in plants is through rain falling directly on the leaves of the plant, where it is directly absorbed. Rainwater absorbed through the earth into the plant is already of much lower radiation intensity due to the filtering affect of the soil.
    All broad leaf plants and plants with large surface areas grown in the open air (rather than in greenhouses) are the most contaminated, for instance Salad Greens, Spinach, Cabbage etc. Contaminated crops in California (carrying radioactive iodine and cesium) have already been confirmed by UC Berkeley.
    [Carrots and other root vegetables are less contaminated due to growing underground.]

    Water from Rainwater or Open Lake type catchments: instead drink bottled water, or water from underground wells or other underground sources (radiation is greatly reduced when the particles have to travel through the ground.)

    PREGNANT (OR BREASTFEEDING) WOMEN AND YOUNG CHILDREN SHOULD ESPECIALLY BE CAREFUL REGARDING THESE ITEMS COMING FROM FALLOUT AFFECTED AREAS


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