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Trace amounts of Radiation found in Hilo Milk - whalesong - 04-12-2011
No need to be concerned though, is what they say, hum..Will we ever get the truth from our officials?
You decide after reading the article, if you are going to continue to drink MILK, or have a beer or mai- tai, instead. LOL..
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20110412_Traces_of_radiation_found_in_isle_milk.html
RE: Trace amounts of Radiation found in Hilo Milk - Kelena - 04-12-2011
What all of the analyses of the Fukushima disaster miss is this: it ain't over. You have a daisy chain of nuclear reactors, most of which are in a slow-motion meltdown, It's a slow-motion meltdown because heroic Japanese are walking into the maw of a radioactive hell on Earth and doing what they can to retard the process. Those workers will die.
The numbers are based on where we are today. Who knows where we will be when this is over, and it does not appear that this will be any time soon. The complex isn't inland. It's right on the ocean and leaking. Seafood is off of my menu forever. Entombing Fukushima will take more concrete than I can comprehend. I am confident of this, however: If you have an accident like this, you want the Japanese to address it. They will do everything humanly possible to mitigate the damage on Japan and on the rest of the world. We won't get off free.
This century will be big: Ever bigger epidemics, big environmental disasters and big events that race across the world at the speed of a 777.
RE: Trace amounts of Radiation found in Hilo Milk - PaulW - 04-12-2011
Irrational hysteria is alive and well.
RE: Trace amounts of Radiation found in Hilo Milk - Rob Tucker - 04-12-2011
Too bad it will likely ruin one of our few local dairies.
RE: Trace amounts of Radiation found in Hilo Milk - punaticbychoice - 04-13-2011
I hope not Rob.
It would be foolish to throw away a local dairy in favor of shipping even more food here.
And the mainland is more exposed to atmospheric drift from Japan than we are.
Anyway.
RE: Trace amounts of Radiation found in Hilo Milk - csgray - 04-13-2011
Not to mention that if the milk is affected, so is all of our catchment water too. It may get a little more concentrated in the milk, but it all came from the same rainfalls.
Carol
RE: Trace amounts of Radiation found in Hilo Milk - PaulW - 04-13-2011
More bad news, the bananas are more than 10x as radioactive as the milk!
Oh, hold on, they've always been like that. Panic over.
http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/natural.htm
RE: Trace amounts of Radiation found in Hilo Milk - TrevorKane - 04-13-2011
At 43 picocuries of Cesium and 18 picocuries of iodine, I wouldn't get too worked up. If it's any consolation, rainwater generally doesn't carry as strong a concentration of isotopes as milk:
http://www.romaniantimes.at/news/General_News/2011-04-12/14164/Radioactive_iodine_detected_in_rain_water_and_milk_in_Romania
History lesson:
Marie Sklodowska Curie was a physicist and chemist and a pioneer in the field of radioactivity. In fact, it was Curie that coined the term radioactivity, though Henri Becquerel discovered the phenomenon years earlier. Curies research into the properties of two different uranium ores, pitchblende and chalcolite. led to the discovery of radium and polonium, other radioactive elements. Curie’s husband, Pierre, was so intrigued by her research that he decided to suspend his own research to join her.
The Curies undertook the arduous task of separating radium out of pitchblende ore. From a ton of pitchblende, one-tenth of a gram of radium chloride was separated. Unfortunately, the Curies were unaware of the deleterious health effects of repeated unprotected radiation exposure. Pierre Curie died in 1906 after being hit and run over by a horse drawn carriage, however Marie lived for another 28 years continuing her research and eventually winning two Nobel prizes. She often carried test tubes containing radioactive isotopes in her pocket and stored them in her desk drawer, remarking on the pretty blue-green light that the substances gave off in the dark.
Marie Curie died on July 4, 1934 due to aplastic anemia contracted from exposure to radiation. She is interred at the cemetery in Sceaux, alongside her husband Pierre. Her laboratory is preserved at the Musee Curie. Due to their levels of radioactivity, her papers from the 1890’s are considered too dangerous to handle. Even her cookbook is highly radioactive. They are kept in lead-lined boxes, and those who wish to consult them must wear protective clothing.
RE: Trace amounts of Radiation found in Hilo Milk - Rob Tucker - 04-13-2011
Trib: "With a half life of eight days, iodine-131 levels are expected to decrease rapidly".
Seems like just a lot of stress for our dairymen.
RE: Trace amounts of Radiation found in Hilo Milk - macuu222 - 04-13-2011
You kind of wonder why they even published it in the newspaper.