First signs of radiation hits the BC coast

milquetoast · Apr 10, 2015

The good news is that the radiation is so small that unlikely to be harmful to humans or our marine friends: http://www.vancouversun.com/technol...from+Fukushima+hits+coast/10949176/story.html

The contaminated sample was collected at a dock in Ucluelet on Feb. 19 and found to contain 1.5 Bequerels per cubic metre of Cesium-134, the isotope being used as a marker for radioactivity from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in Japan.

For comparison, the maximum allowable concentration that we have in Canadian drinking water, that’s set by Health Canada, is 10,000 Bequerels per metre cubed

The amount is so small, in fact, that if someone decided to swim for six hours every day for a year in water that contained twice the level of Cesium-134 found in this sample, she would receive a radioactive dose more than a thousand times smaller than she would with a single dental X-ray.

To give some perspective, the levels that we’re measuring now are more than a factor of 10 below what the maximum levels were in the Pacific last century from atmospheric weapons testing. The Northeast Pacific had more radioactive cesium in the 50s and 60s than we expect to see from Fukushima.
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First signs of radiation hits the BC coast

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