Fukushima Contaminants Found As Far North As Alaska's Bering Strait

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Fukushima Contaminants Found As Far North As Alaska's Bering Strait

Posted by BeauHD on Thursday March 28, 2019 @02:10PM from the lost-and-found dept.

Radioactive contamination from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant hit by a tsunami in 2011 has drifted as far north as waters off a remote Alaska island in the Bering Strait, scientists said on Wednesday. Reuters reports: Analysis of seawater collected last year near St. Lawrence Island revealed a slight elevation in levels of radioactive cesium-137 attributable to the Fukushima disaster, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Sea Grant program said. The newly detected Fukushima radiation was minute. The level of cesium-137, a byproduct of nuclear fission, in seawater was just four-tenths as high as traces of the isotope naturally found in the Pacific Ocean. Those levels are far too low to pose a health concern, an important point for people living on the Bering Sea coast who subsist on food caught in the ocean.

Those levels are far too low to pose a health concern, an important point for people living on the Bering Sea coast who subsist on food caught in the ocean, Sheffield said. Until the most recent St. Lawrence Island sample was tested by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the only other known sign of Fukushima radiation in the Bering Sea was detected in 2014 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Re:So what by angel'o'sphere · 2019-03-28 14:54 · Score: 0, Troll

Perhaps you should stop talking about stuff you have no freaking idea about?
Your body treats cesium like potassium. It does not bioaccumulate.
Your human body, perhaps. No idea. But how is that relevant when your food does?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

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Re:BeauHD by Abraham++Hitler · 2019-03-28 16:16 · Score: -1, Troll

Destroy all Jews, millenial douchebags, and worthless Japs which lost their part of the war.

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