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In reply to the discussion: You can ignore it all you want [View all]RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)By - Associated Press - Wednesday, April 8, 2015
VICTORIA, British Columbia (AP) - Radiation from the leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor has been detected on the shores of Vancouver Island, four years after a deadly earthquake and tsunami in Japan killed 16,000 people.
University of Victoria chemical oceanographer Jay Cullen said Monday that its the first time radiation has been found on the shorelines of North America since the quake and tsunami ravaged the Japanese north coast and disabled the nuclear reactor.
Low levels of the radioactive isotope Cesium-134, which scientists say can only come from Fukushima, were found in waters collected on Feb. 19 off a dock at Ucluelet, British Columbia, about 195 miles west of Victoria, Cullen said.
Last November, the first sample containing detectable radioactivity from Fukushima was discovered about 90 miles off the coast of northern California.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/8/japanese-reactor-radiation-detected-off-bc-coast/
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My memory was that a level 7 found, was Cs137.
Note that this report says they found Cs134, which the rad ocean link does NOT report. Which goes to show the rad ocean site is hiding something. I figured the rad ocean people by now would be reporting up to date data, but it is not. My bad for trusting them and using them as a source, because even the AP is a better source than them.