50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima

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108. What we know - take two

Woods Hole just reported last week on their sampling off the coast. I'll repost here since you can't comment on the other thread:

Search online for information on Pacific Ocean radiation from Fukushima, and the search results fill up with fear filled claims the Ocean is burning up from the radiation, and we're all about to die. On Tuesday, initial results were announced by an effort organized by the Woods Hole Institute showing trace amounts of Cesium-137 and other radioactive elements in the Pacific, at levels scientists say

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Seeing this, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is hoping to organize dozens of seawater sampling sites along the western coast of North America. They've launched a website, Our Radioactive Ocean, which is crowdfunding an an organization which will do the necessary radiation monitoring necessary to bring the light of truth to this problem.

The current funding has supported seawater sampling at 8 sites from the Seattle area down to San Diego.

In all cases the level of Cesium-134 is below detection, and while Cesium-137 is detectable its concentration is about 1.3 Bq per cubic meters. That Cesium-137 concentration is exactly the level that's left over from atomic bomb testing in the 1950's. Meaning the scientists have yet to detect any radioactive material from Fukushima on the US West Coast.

http://www.examiner.com/article/woods-hole-detects-only-1950-s-a-bomb-radiation-fukushima-plume-yet-to-arrive

OTOH... maybe the starfish a quiverring with irrational fear over what the fuku-radiation will do to them when it does get there... leaving them in a state of more-than-rhetorical goo.

It happens here often enough. Why not in the sea?