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42. mistake you're making is assuming "ambient" radiation levels preclude hot spots of higher levels`

Wed Dec 28, 2011, 05:49 PM

Dec 2011

or particles, which may be harmful.

you are treating specific scientific measurements, which is a sample, as the only possible value or concentration or amount of radiation, or the radiation level's cause, when they are in fact, snapshots, samples in the universe of data that's out there, some which may be higher or not represented by the lower number.

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Scientists test sick Alaska seals for radiation [View all] IDemo Dec 2011 OP

How sad Politicalboi Dec 2011 #1

Very doubtful. TheWraith Dec 2011 #8

wow you're certainly very knowledgeable for having never even seen one of the seals wordpix Dec 2011 #9

Amazing, isn't it? Purports to know all there is to know sans most pertinent facts. Doremus Dec 2011 #12

Especially when our government has been LYING... CoffeeCat Dec 2011 #44

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I understand what you are saying... CoffeeCat Dec 2011 #50

It's called understanding science. TheWraith Dec 2011 #15

and you also know the migration habits of these seals? You're an expert on where they were before wordpix Dec 2011 #19

So minor was the release of radioactive materials that Obama ordered the EPA to cease monitoring. Citizen Worker Dec 2011 #35

Yes, no one talks about this any more... CoffeeCat Dec 2011 #45

Yes....interesting, no? PearliePoo2 Dec 2011 #51

O has done plenty wrong including wanting taxpayers to guarantee loans for new nukes@ $36 billion wordpix Dec 2011 #49

when you understand science, you know you have to investigate a question, not jump to conclusions wordpix Dec 2011 #54

This same exact story broke within days of Fukushima, regarding a different species on the west coas AtheistCrusader Dec 2011 #31

That isn't the way it happened kristopher Dec 2011 #36

They were littoral fish. AtheistCrusader Dec 2011 #37

Yes, please do so. kristopher Dec 2011 #47

I take that back. AtheistCrusader Dec 2011 #48

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read "Nuclear Roulette: The Case Against a Nuclear Renaissance" & maybe wordpix Dec 2011 #13

Enenews isn't an energy news website. It's a pseudoscience website. TheWraith Dec 2011 #16

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I am not personally attacking you, dotymed Dec 2011 #25

K&R... stonecutter357 Dec 2011 #27

I would direct you; greiner3 Dec 2011 #33

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mistake you're making is assuming "ambient" radiation levels preclude hot spots of higher levels` CreekDog Dec 2011 #42

Let us know when the results come in. Trillo Dec 2011 #2

sound like radiation poisoning to me FirstLight Dec 2011 #3

Eat fish at your peril! Hawkowl Dec 2011 #4

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NPR, Talk of the Nation today, reports US agency is now approving a newly engineered nuc. plant. jerseyjack Dec 2011 #5

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It's horrible. freshwest Dec 2011 #7

the entire planet is dying wordpix Dec 2011 #14

HOPI Prophecies- akin to SO many other indigenous peoples prophecies. BeHereNow Dec 2011 #20

nice video, thanks wordpix Dec 2011 #29

+1 zeemike Dec 2011 #40

There are other segments from the Elders on Youtube BeHereNow Dec 2011 #53

Please repost when the results come back. Thanks IDemo! n/t SunSeeker Dec 2011 #17

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ah, yes, the NRC, that bastion of foxes guarding the nuclear henhouse wordpix Dec 2011 #28

Ask Dr. Kelley --WTF is Going On with these seals!!! solarman350 Dec 2011 #24

as i understand it, uncleroy Dec 2011 #30

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Children, too, as with war. closeupready Dec 2011 #41

Glad to see at least some sort of testing for Fukushima radiation over here. Overseas Dec 2011 #52