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On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:58:41 -0400,
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On 3/28/2011 7:56 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 28/03/2011 4:28 PM, Stig Arne Bye wrote:
Tim wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/wo...er=rss&emc=rss


They have a power plant that they[ore concerned is going to leak off
highly contaminated water into the sea... Not good for fisherman and
the fish that people thrive on.

It appear to not be just waterborne contamination spreading, as I just
read in a local newspaper here in Norway that three measuring stations
throughout the country have registered tiny increases of radiation from
airborne Iodine-131.
Will not be long before it shows in fish stocks. Sea weed on the west
coast of Canada is already showing it.

I see a dramatic increase in the sales of geiger counters.

I dug mine out after the rain the other day and I got a few counts but
since I didn't establish a baseline a month ago, I am not sure this is
worse that the normal background.
It also has not been recalibrated since the Kennedy administration so
I doubt any reading this low is really significant anyway.
If I was in Tokyo this might be useful but we are talking about minute
changes here.


I checked a couple of sites that sell counters, just for grins. Pretty
much sold out. There are some Russian "cold war vintage" models
available, though. :)