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Radioisotope Analysis Results for sampled Seaweed, Soil & Mushrooms – (Northern Humboldt County, California)

Okanogan Valley, Northern Washington (USA) – June 5, 2013 - [DISCLAIMER] –> The shortlink for this blogpost is http://wp.me/puwO9-22Y In my blog post, “Radiation Fallout Maps for the United States (May 1, 2012)”, I pointed out that land spots in the Pacific Northwest received … Continue reading

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Fukushima Radiation Measurements (a Dec 5, 2012 snapshot, for reference, with data sources)

Mad River Tap Room, Blue Lake, CA – Dec 5, 2012 I added another radiation data source to my list of Radiation Monitors in Japan: http://ma-04x.net/all.html h/t: Fukushima Diary‘s Dec. 1, 2012 reporting: ’Radiation level spiked up in west coast of Japan for about … Continue reading

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Radiation Monitoring – Overview of Data Sources in the US.

Northern California – November 2, 2012 - This blogpost’s info is from my page US Radiation Monitors, a sub-tab of the (top-bar) ‘Radioactivity’ tab.  For radiation monitors in other countries, see Radiation Monitors Worldwide.  Please contact me if you know good sources.  Thank you. You may also … Continue reading

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Data of ‘California Slammed with Radiation’, Kept Secret for Nearly a Year

Boulder, CO – not an April fool’s joke – Reported in The Journal Environmental Science and Technology (March 6, 2012), written about on the George Washington Blog (March 30, 2012) with ENENews (March 30, 2012) weighing in, from where it spread to Zero … Continue reading

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Radioactive Cesium still being detected in US Milk (68% more than half year ago in SF Bay Area)

★ Boulder, Colorado, USA ★ Feb. 21, 2012 ★ 20:42 hrs ★ Standard Mountain Time ★ It may not amount to much in the big scheme of things (see further below), but a quick look at UC Berkeley’s radiation measurements, http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/UCBAirSampling, shows that the level of … Continue reading

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Cesium-137 fallout map comparison Chornobyl vs. Fukushima – new color-translated map added

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 23, 2011 (stuck here due to Belgian rail strike) !!!–> I finally added the Cecium-137-only Fukushima fallout map in Chornobyl Cs-137 fallout UNEP legend colors to my ‘Extended Fukushima Fallout Maps – Sept 29 MEXT Release. Fukushima … Continue reading

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Fukushima Fallout: California and Pacific Northwest more contaminated than half Japan

Noteworthy:  A Cesium fallout simulation map ON LAND, made by the French CEREA (joint laboratory École des Ponts ParisTech and EdF R&D).   See how well that fits with the Chernobyl vs Fukushima comparison I made for the contamination of … Continue reading

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Radiation hotspots as far south as Tokyo

I may have abandoned frequent updates on the (ongoing) Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear reactors disaster, but since I still get quite a number of visitors checking out my fallout contamination comparison map of Fukushima versus Chernobyl (from May 19, 2011), I want to … Continue reading

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Greenpeace finds troubling seaweed contamination + lab link

May 13, 2011:  ”Initial tests of the 22 seaweed samples collected by Greenpeace along the coast North and South of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and up to 65km out to sea by its flag ship Rainbow Warrior registered … Continue reading

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Fukushima 2011 versus Chernobyl 1986: a fallout map comparison

One map’s green is another map’s red!  PLEASE  CLICK HERE FOR THE NEWER COMPARISON! –>  more recently updated, and more accurate: ‘Fukushima 2011 versus Chernobyl 1986 - Extended fallout map comparison‘ based on the Sept 29, 2011 MEXT maps.    You … Continue reading

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Strontium-90 Detected in Waters Near Fukushima Power Plant

Off to the beach! Details about Strontium-90 further below.  Five-days old news, but thought I’d mention it anyhow, by way of Korean Global TV news agency ‘Arirang’ (May 10, 2011):  http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=115777&code=Ne8&category=1   Click on the image to watch or read the … Continue reading

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