Fukushima radiation found in California kelp

[TheMadMonk]

33. Around Chernobyl yes, but in much lower numbers than doomsdayers...

...predicted. Around Fukushima, quite possibly, but given the relatively (to Chernobyl) low exposure levels, probably in numbers low enough that it will be dificult to tease them from the natural background.

TMI, Sellafield, and other bogeyman cluster sites? Someone recently did a reverse statistical analysis, just to see what size and distribution of clusters ordinary random variation might produce, ENTIRELY INDEPENDENT of any causative agency. Result, ALL of those "strongly indicative" cancer clusters turned out to be pretty much indistinguishable from background noise.

This is not to say that TMI, Sellafield, etc. are absolutely and definitively not causative agents, simply that it can not be demonstrated (or honestly argued) that they are, or even might be, and no amount of wishing, wailing, gnashing of teeth and poking holes in maps with righteously jabbed fingers will change that.

More people die unnatural, non-accidental deaths around the refineries and other oil facilities of Texas EVERY YEAR than Chernobly has demonstrably killed in the last QUARTER OF A CENTURY.

On a related note: Overhead powerlines, and cellphone towers are a lot more ubiquitous than nuclear power plants. For them it CAN be argued with a great deal of certitude, that they present minimal danger to the genome and their greatest carnage is entirely to the hip pocket.