RADCON ALERT! Richland WA 505, San Jose, CA 303

How close are you to Fukushima? It seems like we on the west coast are getting more radiation than Japan because of wind patterns.

netc, IIRC, uses EPA RADNET monitoring data. Those monitors are air-filtration devices and need to have the filters replaced every few weeks or they get high readings from accumulated (normal, as in before Fuku) output from coal plants in China, Volcanos, old CS-137 from Nuclear testing, etc.

Sure, there could be Fuku output in there, but the cycle is that you get high readings, EPA changes the filter, it goes down and the creeps up again. Rinse, repeat.

We are ca. 250 Km south of F'Shima and think that many People
are wrong to expect much Radiation in the USA "but" i am not a
Fortune Teller or involved in a Conspiracy nor a nuclear Scientist!

The World will go on, until the final moment

Bluefin tuna off the coast of Cali is radioactive ... It is not a maybe that we are affected. It is real. Here in Cali we get the feeling that our friends in Japan are a bit in denial about the situation. It seems like people over there are burying their heads in the sand. Meanwhile, over here, a lot of the sea life is turning up sick or mutated. I haven't eaten seafood from the Pacific in two years. It's super sad. I hope that your country can get things under control so we can have a healthy planet.

Why do you think Tepco is handling this so badly? And why is the Japanese government doing nothing? It is very confusing for us over here.

No, thats not SJ, it's us in Fresno at 680.

@ Isobella,

it is a very hot Topic where everyone try to be smarter than the other one.

Tepco is doing not "that bad" like the (uneducated?) majority think,
they done the nearly impossible thing to stop the Melt-Down under
really bad circumstances.

Not the "Classical and Real Shutdown" but a State of
"Quasi Cold-Shutdown" and this was and is a Feat which
many People do not understand because nearly no one of us
is a nuclear Scientist!

The IAEA is at the moment in Daiichi and this People are surprised
about the process of Tepco who build 5-6 whole new Buildings,
a few hundred Kilometer of Electricity, Water, Data Lines,
two huge Water Filtration Plants who are able to remove ca. 99%
of all Radioactivity, countless (ca. 2.000?) Water-Tanks, etc., etc.,
i could go on for a few more Paragraphs but the
best is to look for it by yourself :hiding;

Until now Tepco worked more than 1.800.000 Man Working-Hour,
since 3/11 which is immense in such a short Time and in that Environment!

All is Relative and always People do and should demand the Impossible,
but there is a point when Critique is plain Childish.

I forgot Seafood:
to stop it now is imo. childish and a typical Over-reaction,
stop it when you know it is polluted,
the Traces they found in the Tuna in 2012 do not justify such a radical Step.

But the People in the US need to check the Fish,
like we do

Do not wait for your Government to do this,
reclaim your own Responsibility!

Radioactivity in richland Washington. ........
No you don't say. Obviously none of you are from washington.

Worldwide hari kari?


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Almost always, these high readings are anomalous. Right now on radiationnetwork.com it shows Denver with a higher (50) reading. My detector has never shown any significant rise in the past couple of years, and yes, it has been recently calibrated at a lab.

"Homeland Security" wants to put small radiation detectors in your smartphone. One can imagine what would happen if a citizen with these enabled smartphones drives past your place at it gives an anomalous high reading... suddenly you would find a NEST team with a MRAP barging down your door! For nothing.

Oddly, Blackcat systems' radiation tracker map has been disabled by Google for the past week or so.

Hmmmm....

looks like the entire west coast is elevated.

very cute! But you are correct, I do not make threads often so this is very important. Just checked and more higher levels throughout map. Yes I believe it is coming from fukushima. Watch the wind patterns as higher levels are reported spreading west to east. In response to the poster saying last A he saw was Oct. I have seen more since then but usually one at a time, which then had made me think of radiation release from a local plant. But with three A's on the map right now along with a lot of rising and elevated as well. No doubt in my mind it's fukushima.

For the no name coward leaving me red. If the best you got is calling me a troll for posting important information because I am worried about people in those areas then I feel really sorry for you. I truly do.

Yep..Hanford.

there was a "small" release at FukuU a few days a go. It was on netc.com amd comments of ennews

I am in PNW also. You are right, the chef trails have been beyond belief. One morning they were like so thick, I was amazed.

A few days is all it takes to get here. Thanks I'll go check ene.

I have no doubt that if Ison survives we will get showered with love when she passes us. Sorry, humor better than fear! But right now this is not Ison, it is Fukushima. Don't take my word for it, check the wind patterns yourself and compare to netc.

Thanks for calling me childish and uneducated in your two posts just because I am questioning Tepco and not wanting to eat contaminated seafood. Your attitude sucks ... Hopefully it is not representative of the general attitude in Japan.

....oh....nevermind. I thought you said "RACOON ALERT".

How about tell us what the fuck you are babbling about.

Here is what someone very "educated" has to say about eating seafood from the Pacific:

Interview with Dr. Charles Perrow, professor emeritus at Yale University and author of the award-winning book Normal Accidents: Living With High Risk Technologies, Nov. 11, 2013:

Q: Do you think it’s safe to eat seafood – salmon, tuna – from the Pacific? A: No. […] I haven’t stopped because I’m at an ancient age where before it could affect me, I will have died of other causes. So I haven’t stopped, but I recommend to my granddaughter who lives in Berkeley California that they be very cautious about the amount seafood from the Pacific that they consume.

This "detection" website has NO STANDARDS. They allow any idiot to go and buy there 50-100 dollar piece of Chinese made plastic and say its a well built radiation detector. I bet 95% of the units they use for information are NEVER calibrated because people most certainly do not know how to do it.( if its even possible) I was reading through there forums and saw what they accept as a passable piece of equipment. It looks like something a 5th grader made in science class. Wake me up when this website starts to set standards that require people to use ACTUALLY FUNCTIONING PRODUCTS

Funny you mention that. I was enjoying a cup of coffee all bundled up out back. I like to in the cold clear mornings. Especially in Nov and Dec. As you know, we never know the next time we'll see the sun. Anyways, all clear, even a big lack of commercial air traffic. Then right at 9:30 sharp, like most mornings, the trails start. Of course always in the part of the sky where the sun is.

I did have the awful metallic taste the other day, maybe Monday or Sunday. Like whatever i eat, still there bad. I usually just think it me. But this time I was at the grocery store. And I picked up some tic tacs. The clerk mentioned in passing, mints are really popular today. Granted it's a big grocery store and you know all the sweets at cheek out. But goodness, it made me double take.

Sorry I don't believe that. There is always things that can be done. My hope is that people will do them. There is always doom for some, every day in fact. But ELE is doom for all, I personally am unable to accept that. Life will always continue. For how many or what quality...I don't know.