CA: Health officials respond to beach radiation video

[Shiloh]

Source: http://www.hmbreview.com/news/healt...0-74de-11e3-9c9d-001a4bcf887a.html?mode=story

Health officials respond to beach radiation scare

Government officials say they are looking into the video from Dec. 23 and performing their own sampling of the beaches, but they have found no indication so far that radiation levels were hazardous.

Posted: Friday, January 3, 2014 5:21 pm | Updated: 10:18 pm, Fri Jan 3, 2014.

By Mark Noack [ mark@hmbreview.com ] | 15 comments

An amateur video of a Geiger counter showing what appear to be high radiation levels at a Coastside beach has drawn the attention of local, state and federal public health officials. Since being posted last week, the short video has galvanized public concerns that radioactive material could be landing on the local coastline after traveling from Japan as a result of the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors.

Government officials say they are looking into the video shot on Dec. 23 and performing their own sampling of the beaches, but they have found no indication so far that radiation levels were hazardous...

 

[Tonka]

Re: CA: Health officials respond to beach radiation video

http://www.sfweekly.com/2001-05-09/news/fallout/

Maybe this??

Fallout
Newly released documents indicate the Navy dumped far more nuclear waste than it's ever acknowledged in a major commercial fishery just 30 miles west of San Francisco. Why won't the government even study the Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Site?...more from the source.

 

[Shiloh]

Re: CA: Health officials respond to beach radiation video

Source: http://www.hmbreview.com/news/exper...cle_d3bb5b14-77ea-11e3-a37b-001a4bcf887a.html

Experts say beach radiation unrelated to Fukushima
Posted: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 2:27 pm | Updated: 2:37 pm, Tue Jan 7, 2014.

By Mark Noack [ mark@hmbreview.com ] | 3 comments

...International Medcom CEO Dan Sythe later put the dirt sample in a spectrum analyzer to view the radioactive ?signature? of the particles, the photon energy associated with each isotope. What he found was different from cesium-137, the fissile material used in the Fukushima reactors. He would know ? since the 2011 meltdown, Sythe has visited Japan nine times to help map the cesium fallout.

Instead he was seeing radium and thorium, naturally occurring radioactive elements.

?It doesn?t mean that it?s OK. It's not something you'd want your baby playing in,? Sythe said. ?All we?re saying is this radiation is not from Fukushima.?

Sythe summarized his findings on his blog in the hopes that it would dispel a sense of panic spreading on the Internet that Fukushima radiation was hitting U.S. shores. People were posting online claiming that the West Coast would soon be ?toast,? he said, so it was vital to get better information online...