Scientists: Test West Coast for Fukushima radiation

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61. The issue is where the science stands, not any one person.

Authority in science resides in the body of data, and in how a particular discipline as a whole interprets the data. There is no authority in any one person, not even the so-called luminaries.

The test is always the facts of the universe. Those facts seem to be against what Mr. Gundersen has said.

Meanwhile, science moves on and does the kind of work as is documented in the OP. there is no danger from Fukushima Daiichi on the west coast. But science will continue to take measurements regardless because that may tell us all something important, for instance, about ocean currents.

Meanwhile Arnie Gundersen continues his hair on fire, doom and gloom pronouncements. Now falsified.

Why anybody against nuclear energy would continue to listen to him is a bit baffling.

The Fukushima Daiichi situation is damned bad. But when one makes shit up about it it allows the nuclear power supporters to claim that those opposed to nuclear power are doing just that. That hurts the anti-nuclear cause!

Why don't people understand that?

Keep to the science and stop listening to rubbish from people like Arnie Gundersen. The real science gives anybody enough ammunition against nuclear power.

And no, the west coast of the USA is not likely to be endangered. Why would anybody want it to be?