On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Jim Darrough <[email protected]> wrote: > The amount of radiation you can expect to receive is zero. Anyone who tells > you that we in the U.S.A. are going to receive any dose at all is ignorant > of how this works, or is trying to sell advertising.
It's already happened, if I recall correctly in Seattle. See e.g., <http://rt.com/usa/news/japanese-nuclear-radiation-reaches-usa/>. There have also been reports that some passengers arriving at major U.S. airports from Tokyo have been triggering radiation detectors at the airports. I spent 20-plus years in no small part studying the fate of toxic pollutants in the environment, as part of my legal practice suing polluters and the government agencies that are supposed to regulate them. I am also the co-author of three treatises on the subject of toxic pollutants. In my studied opinion, when faced with airborne radioactive pollutants whose half-lives are measured in the hundreds of thousands of years, it is beyond question that the tendency of such pollutants to disperse and to bio-accumulate in food chains leaves no room for doubt that the contamination from the Japanese emissions will be global in scope. Best regards, Paul _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
