Trace amounts of radioactive Iodine found in U.S. drinking water

[villager]

Source: Xinhua

Trace amounts of radioactive Iodine found in U.S. drinking water

WASHINGTON, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Trace amounts of radioactive iodine has been found in drinking water samples in two northwestern U.S. states, but the levels detected have been far below levels of public-health concern, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said late Monday.

According the EPA, Drinking water samples from two locations, Boise, Idaho and Richland, Washington, showed trace amounts of Iodine-131 -- about 0.2 picocuries per liter in each case.

"An infant would have to drink almost 7,000 liters of this water to receive a radiation dose equivalent to a day's worth of the natural background radiation exposure we experience continuously from natural sources of radioactivity in our environment," the EPA said in a statement.

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Read more: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-04/05/c_13813775.htm

[aquart]

1. What's in the Chinese water? Or don't they want to know?

[Keith Bee]

2. Accidental rec

This is nothingb to get freaked over.

[nc4bo]

4. and countering with a Rec.

There are 4 reactors involved. All of them compromised in some way. Whatever garbage they're spewing will not stop until they bury those horrors and even then, no guarantee they won't leak from the bottom and into the water supply.

And in the meantime, in the U.S. that crap will continue to hitch a ride on the jet stream and follow the water currents accumulating God knows where and in God knows what.

The best time for concern is now, not later.

[Generic Other]

5. yeah who cares about people who live here

I will remember not to freak out when bad things happen in your neighborhood.

[bahrbearian]

3. Richland, Boise,,, Handford?