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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Plutonium still measurable from nuclear tests decades ago

      I found this admission two mornings ago significant, though it was buried in a news update which can no longer be found at the link I have for it: "Tokyo Electric Power Co. official Jun Tsuruoka said only two of the plutonium samples taken Monday were from the leaking reactors. The other three were from earlier nuclear tests. Years of weapons testing in the atmosphere left trace amounts of plutonium in many places around the world."

     This may be the first official acknowledgement 1) that nuclear bombs and nuclear reactors both produce the same deadly side-effects, and 2) that nuclear tests (most of them from the 1950s and 1960s and NONE of them by Japan) contaminate the world for decades with measurable amounts of radiation.
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  1. KathrynMarch 31, 2011 at 9:18 AM

    Thought you might be interested in this:

    US Radiation Map

    Hawkes' Health

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  2. Jessica RenshawMarch 31, 2011 at 3:13 PM

    Thank you, Kathryn! The US Radiation Map is exactly what I've been looking for--just the facts: various units used in measurements, how to convert from one to another, actual readings around the country, no political interpretation or agenda. Thanks. I'm going to post this link up where more people will see it.

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