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Study: Fukushima radiation plume contacted North America at California “with greatest exposure in central and southern California”

Published: March 29th, 2012 at 10:25 pm ET By ENENews Email Article 50 comments Share77

Title: Canopy-Forming Kelps as California’s Coastal Dosimeter: 131I from Damaged Japanese Reactor Measured in Macrocystis pyrifera (ACS Publications)
Source: Environmental Science & Technology
Author: Steven L. Manley and Christopher G. Lowe, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University
Publication Date (Web): March 6, 2012

INTRODUCTION
[...] Projected paths of the radioactive atmospheric plume emanating from the Fukushima reactors, best described as airborne particles or aerosols for 131I, 137Cs, and 35S, and subsequent atmospheric monitoring showed it coming in contact with the North American continent at California, with greatest exposure in central and southern California. Government monitoring sites in Anaheim (southern California) recorded peak airborne concentrations of 131I at 1.9 pCi m−3 from a baseline of zero. [...]
Read the abstract here
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More about California radiation exposure after Fukushima:

• Anaheim, CA has highest amount of radioactive fallout of any EPA air monitoring station in Continental U.S. for iodine-131
• USGS: Los Angeles area had highest cesium deposition in US after Fukushima
• "Tends to concentrate in the testicles": 360+ atoms of radioactive sulfur per day may have been inhaled by Californians after Fukushima
• Unprecedented Spike: 1501 atoms of radioactive sulfur per meter³ was detected in California air
• Radioactive sulfur in California spiked to highest levels ever detected: University researchers
• Controversy after US gov't estimate showed 40,000 microsievert thyroid dose for California infants from Fukushima -- Data not released to public -- "Very high doses to children"
• Spike in radiation levels for West Coast? "Abnormal" readings on 8 of 18 EPA monitors for California, Oregon, Washington -- Devices now "undergoing quality review"
• Nuclear policy expert: "Striking" that radioactive iodine-131 in California rainwater is so far above level permitted in drinking water
• Uranium-234 detected in Hawaii, Southern California, and Seattle

Published: March 29th, 2012 at 10:25 pm ET By ENENews Email Article 50 comments Share77

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