Fukushima contaminants found as far north as Alaska's Bering Strait
from march 24th
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Radioactive contamination from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant hit by a tsunami in 2011 has drifted as far north as waters off a remote Alaska island in the Bering Strait, scientists said on Wednesday.
Analysis of seawater collected last year near St. Lawrence Island revealed a slight elevation in levels of radioactive cesium-137 attributable to the Fukushima disaster, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Sea Grant program said.
“This is the northern edge of the plume,” said Gay Sheffield, a Sea Grant marine advisory agent based in the Bering Sea town of Nome, Alaska.
The newly detected Fukushima radiation was minute. The level of cesium-137, a byproduct of nuclear fission, in seawater was just four-tenths as high as traces of the isotope naturally found in the Pacific Ocean.
Those levels are far too low to pose a health concern, an important point for people living on the Bering Sea coast who subsist on food caught in the ocean, Sheffield said.
Cesium-137 levels some 3,000-times higher than those found in the Bering Sea are considered safe for human consumption under U.S. Environmental Protection Agency drinking water standards, officials said.
A 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami in March 2011 triggered meltdowns at three of the Fukushima Daiichi plant’s six reactors, spewing radiation into the air, soil and ocean and forcing 160,000 residents to flee.
It was the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl 25 years earlier.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alaska-fukushima-idUSKCN1R90BV
Twitter Blocking Users From Following Anti-Abortion Film In Second Recent 'Glitch
After temporarily suspending the Twitter account of a Christian-focused production company's anti-abortion film with no explanation, some Twitter users are now reporting that they can't follow the account for the movie Unplanned - as Twitter automatically "un-follows" them upon a refresh.
nplanned is based on the 2009 memoir of former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson, who became a pro-life activist after witnessing an abortion at 13 weeks.
US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell posted video evidence of the very liberal Twitter automatically un-following the account - asking Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Sunday "What is going on @jack? This is outrageous."
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-01/twitter-blocking-people-following-anti-abortion-film-second-glitch
funny how most jumped all over that when released. 75 is 75 no matter how much $ you have.
now that story makes sense re: valve