US Air Force WC-135 Detects Deadly Radiation Over Pacific

[hillbilly123069]

I have no idea if this is a credible site. I know the all-knowing fed said 2 weeks and it would be minor problem with low levels of radiation.
I will post related links as I find them.
http://quinetiam.com/?p=125

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/03/12/canadian-radiation-fallout-concern.html

[Zippyjuan]

From the second link:

Even in the event of a significant release from the reactor, radiation would be diluted before reaching the West Coast, the health agency said.

"Levels would be so low no protective action would be necessary," it said.

The director of the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University also believes that the West Coast is facing very little risk.

"It's impossible to imagine any significant radioactivity reaching the West Coast of the U.S., because it's going to get so dispersed," said David Brenner, who studies radioactive dosing and works with groups involved in planning responses to nuclear disasters.

David Measday, a nuclear physicist at the University of British Columbia, also said that even in the event of a large-scale meltdown, the radiation would dissipate over distance.

[sparebulb]

Residents of the Aleutions and mainland Alaska may be badly affected.

Cesium flavored salmon.......yum.

[XNavyNuke]

More fear mongering for the sheeple HB. Even if the values for local airborne contaminants given by IAEA and NISA are an order of magnitude low, the dilution by winds makes this unlikely without a very refined map of the plume. Given that there are three volcanoes now erupting on the Kamchatka peninsula spewing greater quantities of radioactive isotopes into the air, its far more likely a random sampling is detecting that. The airborne instrumentation cannot do an isotopic analysis only decay mode detection. Actual determination of the fingerprints requires lab analysis.

XNN

[hillbilly123069]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/science/17plume.html?_r=2
What happens to sea life in the path of this?

Animated model.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/science/plume-graphic.html?ref=science

[Zippyjuan]

From the first link:

Health and nuclear experts emphasize that radiation in the plume will be diluted as it travels and, at worst, would have extremely minor health consequences in the United States, even if hints of it are ultimately detectable. In a similar way, radiation from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 spread around the globe and reached the West Coast of the United States in 10 days, its levels measurable but minuscule.


Today (Friday) is supposed to be the day the radiation first reaches the US and California.

http://my.earthlink.net/article/us?guid=20110318/c0496a7c-6fee-4cb5-8df3-d9fdb37a2579


CA officials say no radiation threat detected

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Air pollution regulators in Southern California say they have not detected increased levels of radiation from the damaged Japanese nuclear reactors.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District said Friday radiation measured at its three sites are not higher than typical levels.

The agency's monitors are part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's network of more than 100 sensors across the nation that track radiation levels every hour.