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"R" asked about more recent reports on ocean contamination from Fukushima. Most of the listed reports he listed on his post (by way of Louis P.) came from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) collected data (if you read a 'news article' on something, try following the links back to the original report to get a summery AND conclusion from the study's authors!). The WHOI has more recent reports if only people would get off of Google and do some more serious research. "R" was kvetching that he could only find reports from 2012. Reports are issued almost in a kind of live-streaming so they is not hard to find. The other project is the "Integrated Fukushima Ocean Radionuclide Monitoring (InFORM)" which includes, oddly, the very anti-nuclear "David Suzuki Foundation" and other NGOs ( https://fukushimainform.ca/our-ngo-partners/ ). First, on radiation, turn your browsers to the WHOI's rather excellent and interactive graphic on radiation (does, responses, sources, etc). It is a very good pedagogical presentation on how and how much radiation is bad for you. It is here: http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/heath-risks Now, the InFORM group is based in the Pacific Northwest, basically Puget Sound and Vancouver, BC institutions. Dr. Jay Cullen, who was recently threatened with death by a deranged anti-nuclear activist ... who is in jail, it seems ... for supposedly being "pro-nuclear" --he's not-- he leans toward renewables personally, because of posts like this: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/08/11/1559237/-No-Detectable-Fukushima-Contamination-in-Alaskan-Fish-in-Early-2016 Anyway, Cullen is a lead researcher of Oceanography and Marine Chemistry at the University of Victoria, BC Vancouver and participates in this Forum. The reason for this west coast focus is that the BC area is sort of the first place any effluent from Fukushima shows up. In August he published on the liberal democratic party blog, the DailyKos the following: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/08/12/1559506/-Citizen-Science-Update-August-2016-More-Than-250-Coastal-Seawater-Samples-For-Fukushima-Monitoring it is very short. This is a very basic summation of the increase in radionuclides of Cs-137, the focus of the links "R" provided. While the Cs-137 has reached the West Coast of N. America, it at levels that are barely detectable. One of the reasons is the huge amount of dilution. David Walters _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
