Testing finds no radiation threat along West Coast - USATODAY.com

by Carol in CA Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:24 pm

Testing finds no radiation threat along West Coast - USATODAY.com
A Radioactive Plume Did Reach Southern California on Friday.

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Driven by winds over the Pacific Ocean, a radioactive plume released from the Fukushima Dai-ichi reached Southern California on Friday, heightening concerns that Japan's nuclear disaster was assuming international proportions.

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by mrgolf Sun Mar 20, 2011 12:12 am

The U.S. Department of Energy said minuscule amounts of the radioactive isotopes iodine-131, iodine-132, tellurium-132 and cesium-137 had reached a Sacramento monitoring station tied to the U.N.'s Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, but the readings were far below levels that could pose any health risks.
A detector at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington State earlier this week also detected trace amounts of xenon-133 — a gas produced during nuclear fission — the DOE said.
The doses that a person normally receives from rocks, bricks, the sun and other natural background sources are 100,000 times the dose rates detected at either location, the DOE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a joint statement.
The statement confirmed statements from diplomats and officials in Vienna earlier in the day.

by Guest Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:06 am

Thats good news.

by Carol in CA Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:48 am

mrgolf,

Thank you for posting this information.
Some people are saying though, there is not much monitoring of the Southern part of CA.
Most of the monitors they say are located in Frisco and the Sacramento area and nothing in S. Calif.
And that is the section of the state that is suppose to get the brunt of the radioactivity if any.

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