Published: September 7th, 2011 at 1:12 pm ET
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Dried manure sample, UC Berkeley Food Chain Sampling, September 6, 2011:
Collected at a farm in Sacramento, collection date 8/16:
- Cs134 @ 5.18 Bq/kg (140.4 pCi/kg)
- Cs137 @ 7.93 Bq/kg (214.9 pCi/kg)
Published: September 7th, 2011 at 1:12 pm ET
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Sacramento = California..
9/6 (5:26pm): We tested a topsoil sample and a dried manure sample from the Sacramento area. The manure was produced by a cow long before Fukushima and left outside to dry; it was rained on back in March and April. Both samples showed detectable levels of Cs-134 and Cs-137, with the manure showing higher levels than the soil probably because of its different chemical properties and/or lower density.
In addition, a soil sample from Sonoma county was tested. This sample had been collected in late April but we had not had the chance to test it until now.
One interesting feature of the Sacramento and Sonoma soil samples is that the ratio of Cesium-137 to Cesium-134 is very large — approximately 17.6 and 5.5, respectively. All of our other soil samples until now had shown ratios of between 1 and 2. We know from our air and rainwater measurements that material from Fukushima has a cesium ratio in the range of approximately 1.0 to 1.5, meaning that there is extra Cs-137 in these two soil samples. The best explanation is that in addition to Fukushima fallout, we have also detected atmospheric nuclear weapons testing fallout in these soils. Weapons fallout contains only Cs-137 (no Cs-134) and is known to be present in older soils (pre-1963). Both of these samples come from older soils, while our samples until this point had come from newer soils.
This direct comparison between Fukushima fallout and atmospheric weapons fallout in these soils shows that the fallout from Fukushima in Northern California is significantly less than the amount of Cs-137 that still remains from weapons testing, which has had nearly 50 years to disperse and decay.
Source http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/5552
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Thanks. That helps put these data into perspective. No wonder 40% of the population will develop some form of cancer before they die with this much radiation laying around.
In any event it goes to show that each bit being added to the toxic load is not a good thing. Where is the tipping point? How many more “accidents” are needed?
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In May last year the gov cancer panel released a report that 43% of Americans would get cancer some time in their life’s !!
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May in 2010 !
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I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that Sacramento used to have a nuclear power plant (Rancho Seco) which shut down in 1989 after a public vote. The spent fuel rods are still stored nearby.
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“Radioactive is Radioactive!”
This is the best/lame, most ludicrous “diversion” of fact from the boys at Berkeley I’ve seen in awhile. I am surprised they didn’t say it was radon throwing their sensitive expensive instruments off, therefore creating an air of “uncertainty”. Just wait, they’ll use that one next.
So… basically, they (Berkeley Nuke Team) are at least admitting that cesium, without a shadow of a doubt, has entered our USA food chain via cow poop. That’s a BIG DEAL!!!
Note: Cesium-137 remains ‘HAZARDOUS’ to life for 300 years!!!
If this does not hit MSM, then we are under full lock down, and there’s no question about that.
Why did it take so long to test this stuff?
Why wasn’t it tested last year or before?
Why has this type of data not been mentioned in the past?
Where is the EPA now, where have they been?
(asleep at the wheel, that’s where)
They (the ‘experts’)are either negligent or arrogantly caught up in their own ‘belief’ system that they act and react blindly.
Sacramento is west of Nevada, so it would not have received any ‘significant’ amount of fallout from Nevada’s bomb tests. (my speculation)
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From Pacific testing ?
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I need to keep checking, for sure…there are definitely high levels of radiation in some places in California…
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So this explains why Edward Teller, Glenn Seaborg, and other VIPs in the AEC wouldn’t eat dairy nor veggies at the AEC conference banquet. As I previously posted, i waited on the head table at one of these banquets at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley during the Pacific bomb tests.
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Both canada and the US goverment has known the levels would be higher then the legal amounts and they decided to be cheap and lazy to do their jobs and make a attempt to try and protect their people. What a bunch of useless tools, go build another fema camp obama. Where is lee harvey oswalt when ya need him?
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The time is now. No more talking. We need to rise up against government and take back our country!
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We need to work on: Health Care for Everyone
Looks like it will be needed.
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as we all know, any and every reason exists for berkely to normalize these findings.
hear the fact, not the opinion.
fact: cow shit in california is worth 15bq/kg until proven otherwise.
opinion: this is due to blah blah fucking blah.
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Folks, the government cannot help us against this monster. They are powerless – as is the Japanese government.
They can simply sit back and hope we survive.
What should they do? tell us the food and water is unfit to eat and drink?
They tried that in Tokyo – in 2 hours there wasn’t a bottle of water to drink in the city.
Folks you are on your own – and right now, you have inside information that 99% of the nation does not have. Act on it or not, but do not expect the government to act.
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Wait till the jet stream drops down this fall/winter !
The readings have lightebed up after April and reading fell, but the Jet stream move more over Northern U.S. and Canada, but will be back very soon !
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I live about 60 miles from Sacramento,…and this sure makes sense. We have been hit very hard, even though the rains stopped in late June I think. I am willing to relocate,…but I sure can’t come up with any state all that much better. And, God knows I can’t afford Southern Hemisphere! Stay and die doesn’t sit well at all!!!
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I’m also outside of Sacramento. Did you see Alexander Higgins’ site where he has daily real-time readings of radiation? Look up Sacramento for August 27th. There was a huge spike in radiation on that day in Sacramento for some reason. It went from under 100 cpm to around 600!
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/04/12/realtime-epa-radnet-japan-nuclear-radiation-monitoring-every-us-city-single-page-16511/
Maybe, if things get bad enough, people will join together and help each other resettle in the So. hemisphere.
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I live in Sacramento, Citrus Heights, and I can confirm that with my small GMC-080 I saw elevated counts from the end of August up till now. In fact, I was getting 30CPM in my garage.
I was sitting there, counting the time between the rad counts and could barley count 5 seconds.
I’s better today..
I wonder if it isn’t Radon or something else.
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Radioactive manure was discovered 3 weeks ago in
Redlands, California.
Is this their way of downplaying this video?
http://youtu.be/EoW7YQNjI-k
Kinda makes you wonder
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