Where is all that Fukushima radiation going, and why does it matter?

[flamingdem]

See video here for how particles of radiation can effect you and the food supply. How do you avoid it?
Americium, Bismuth, Uranium is showing up on the West Coast of the United States. What are the implications?

http://www.fairewinds.com/updates

Fairewinds' founder Maggie Gundersen interviews environmental scientist and professional engineer Marco Kaltofen about his ongoing analysis of radioactive fallout from Fukushima.

[Poll_Blind]

1. Also, Tuesday (whenever that is) in Japan, radiation readings are going to be released which....

...will shed a great deal more light on...well...what's going on.

PB

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. we hardly hear anything about the radiation now

[FBaggins]

8. You don't hear about it because it has been falling steadily:

Both on land and in the ocean. In fact the latest data was released just yesterday.

Since that dosnt fit the meme... It doesn't get noticed.

What is due out shortly is not The current readings so much as estimated doses for different areas based on earlier readings. That will get some play as some pretend that the weeks-old data expects current dangers.

The West Coast conversation is the dame thing. Continuing to harp on which elements were detected, rather than amounts, because the amounts were never above "insignificant" and have dropped significantly from there. In many cases they have ceased to be detects at all.

Since this doesnt fit the "worse than Chernobyl" BS... You also will not hear it.

[snot]

2. They're not just on the West Coast; they're all over.

[flamingdem]

3. True, and that was his point

but I think the West Coast got most of the exotic stuff, americium, uranium, strontium in Hawaii, for now.

[truedelphi]

5. The fairewinds.com site is most excellent.

Thank you for posting this.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. I was wondering where these vids were

thanks

[JDPriestly]

7. This is really helpful information.

[bananas]

9. Interesting article about Marco Kaltofen

Worth reading, very inspirational. Wish there were more like him.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/07/08/ecology_sleuth_is_local_global/

Ecology sleuth is local, global
Natick engineer tracks pollution
By Alison O'Leary Murray, Globe Correspondent | July 8, 2007

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The Natick resident is a renowned expert on pollution who travels the world to perform tests on air, soil, and water. Providing proof of environmental destruction has been his business since graduating from Boston University in the 1980s.

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"He really knows his stuff," said Robert Becnel, a New Orleans lawyer who worked with Kaltofen recently to document a major oil spill caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Becnel said Kaltofen's "fingerprinting" of a crude-oil spill, and his expert testimony, helped win a major class action settlement. "We hired a number of experts, and we had the highest confidence in him. He taught us a lot."

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Kaltofen's chemical engineering company, Boston Chemical Data Corp., is often called into action by the nonprofit Government Accountability Project, a Seattle-based watchdog organization.

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[flamingdem]

10. He is interesting

- someone who can pull together the issues about various areas and issues.