11-14-2017, 06:26 AM
Here's the layman's version of the report by authors Hannah Azouz and Trista McKenzie cited in the OP's link:
Tests by the UH-Manoa research team continued every month through 2011 and have been administered every three to six months in subsequent years.
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“The conclusion is pretty much that all is safe,” said Henrietta Dulai, Associate Professor in the Marine and Environmental Geology Division within the Department of Geology and Geophysics at UH-Manoa, who oversaw a small research team including graduate students Hannah Azouz and Trista McKenzie. “Tests are still ongoing, but we do not expect any significant levels at all.”
Ocean currents that might have carried radioactive materials from Japan to Hawaiian shores never made direct contact with the near-shore environment of the Hawaiian Islands...
“The natural radioactivity in the soil is orders of magnitude higher than this added cesium level,” Dulai explained. “The added cesium is a tiny fraction of what is there naturally...
http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-ne...sland-cows
“Facts fall from the poetic observer as ripe seeds.” -Henry Thoreau
Tests by the UH-Manoa research team continued every month through 2011 and have been administered every three to six months in subsequent years.
...
“The conclusion is pretty much that all is safe,” said Henrietta Dulai, Associate Professor in the Marine and Environmental Geology Division within the Department of Geology and Geophysics at UH-Manoa, who oversaw a small research team including graduate students Hannah Azouz and Trista McKenzie. “Tests are still ongoing, but we do not expect any significant levels at all.”
Ocean currents that might have carried radioactive materials from Japan to Hawaiian shores never made direct contact with the near-shore environment of the Hawaiian Islands...
“The natural radioactivity in the soil is orders of magnitude higher than this added cesium level,” Dulai explained. “The added cesium is a tiny fraction of what is there naturally...
http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-ne...sland-cows
“Facts fall from the poetic observer as ripe seeds.” -Henry Thoreau
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