There is a reason the City's e-newsletter kicks off with a link to the State's Japan radiation monitoring site. While the California site notes there is no need to take iodine at this point, today's International Herald Tribune is carrying a piece that notes the risks in California will be "extremely minor". Interesting phraseology, but there is an NRC monitoring station in Sacramento that is expecting to detect radiation by this weekend. It's always something!
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I did not think I would be revisiting this post nearly three years later, but in today's news I read:
Following reports of abnormally high radiation readings on a beach in San Francisco, experts have discovered radiation hot spots measuring 1,400 per cent above normal background levels, although they are keen to stress there is no link to Fukushima.
As we reported on Monday, after a viral video emerged showing a man recording measurements of over 150 micro-REM per hour, 500 per cent normal background radiation, on a beach south of Pillar Point Harbor, San Mateo County officials confirmed the spike but said they were “befuddled” as to the cause.
In a new development, El Granada electrical engineer Steven Weiss, a 40 year veteran designer of Geiger counters, took his own measurements and found hot spots that were returning levels 14 times normal background radiation.
“It’s not normal. I’ve never seen 400 cpm when I just wave my Geiger around.” Weiss told the Half Moon Bay Review. “There has to be something radioactive for it to do that.”
The full piece is here:
http://www.infowars.com/1400-radiation-hot-spot-found-on-san-francisco-beach/
Posted by: Joe | January 08, 2014 at 10:32 AM
Curse you, Godzilla!
Posted by: Pete Garrison | January 08, 2014 at 05:14 PM
Isn't there a dumping ground of radioactive waste @ the Farrlon Islands?
Posted by: Holyroller | January 09, 2014 at 09:08 AM