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FBaggins

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5. What makes you think that any of the plutonium is from Fukushima?

Reply to RobertEarl (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 7, 2014, 04:53 PM

Jan 2014

The levels are no higher than they were in readings there from 2004.

As you've been told several times... we used to set off nuclear bombs in the Pacific - releasing tons (not milligrams) of Plutonium. Plutonium has a half-life in the tens of thousands of years... so virtually all of that release is still around.

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Starfish die off in the NW Pacific [View all] RobertEarl Jan 2014 OP

Department of Energy report of sampling finds Fukushima deposition RobertEarl Jan 2014 #1

What makes you think that any of the plutonium is from Fukushima? FBaggins Jan 2014 #5

Other starfish facts RobertEarl Jan 2014 #2

You posted this in Good Reads FBaggins Jan 2014 #3

We will be the last to know newfie11 Jan 2014 #4

Link? Please check out SOP, need article, blog or other published material. uppityperson Jan 2014 #6

For your edification, it's "species" Aldo Leopold Jan 2014 #7

The grammar is the least of this post's problems. nt longship Jan 2014 #23

Minor problem with your hypothesis jeff47 Jan 2014 #8

Yup. Documented back in the 1980's longship Jan 2014 #9

Interesting RobertEarl Jan 2014 #10

Not clear does not mean people get to make up anything they want. longship Jan 2014 #11

The DOE has found Fukushima material in the Pacific. RobertEarl Jan 2014 #14

Where's your data that sea stars are being effected by Fukushima? longship Jan 2014 #16

So the nuclear waste has a time machine? jeff47 Jan 2014 #12

Yep RobertEarl Jan 2014 #13

And that's why your OP blame it on Fukushima? jeff47 Jan 2014 #15

Let's refresh your memory RobertEarl Jan 2014 #18

Common sense??????? longship Jan 2014 #21

Which, of course is why they're dying in larger numbers... FBaggins Jan 2014 #25

Common sense also tells us that time runs in one direction. jeff47 Jan 2014 #29

Funny. No marine biologists agree with that hypothesis. longship Jan 2014 #17