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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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Radioactive Cesium in US milk Sept 2011 Update: Slight Improvement?

— Vashon Island, WA – Sept 8, 2011 —  [8/29 add-on: nevermind, Cesium-137 content in Bay Area milk went back up since: http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/2174 :-/  If they took the permanent link down again, try http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/UCBAirSampling%5D Given Cesium-137 has a half-life of about 30 … Continue reading

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Background Radiation DOSE & fallout deposits’ ACTIVITY… – What’s the calculation trick?

You know what I am truly curious about?  How dose rates (in µSv/hr for instance) actually can be used, if at all, to gauge the dangers of deposited fallout (whose accurate details would be in activity (in Becquerel or Curie) per something, … Continue reading

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The Fukushima Project – data page [plus something that might help us forget...]

Stumbled upon this data compilation page: http://www.houseoffoust.com/reactors/graphs.html  Which includes temperature and radiation graphs for the troubled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.  Like this one (Notice: Sievert per hour, not milli or micro).  CLICK IMAGE TO ACCESS: This came to … Continue reading

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“The glass is already half full” — […Fukushima Reactor # 1 gets 6 tons water / day)

So, the situation at Reactor 1 of  ”the Blessed Island – the second*” NNP (this is the reactor (strangely, as #2 and #4 have received much more attention) mentioned in the “US-assisted  drills” for “worst case scenario contingency planning: see HERE), … Continue reading

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