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@dean, honest and frank information is PR's most powerful tool.

@Paul, GM counters are only going to give you rough idea. In the months to come, accumulations of Cs in food may pose a health hazard on the West Coast. Fallout may not be even. Hotspots may form. Cs is going to be concentrated in certain organisms along the food chain. How much nobody can tell? For example, mushrooms concentrate Cs real well. The element also accumulates in nuts (botanically defined that includes strawberries and, I believe, sunflowers). Deer and (in Europe) wild boars eat a lot of acorns, resulting in Cs accumulation in venison. After Chernobyl, the counts in venison are above limits in some regions of Europe to the day. Since in Japan much radioactivity is being released into the ocean, there will be accumulations in seafood. Imported food I 'd be worried about most, not that much from Japan, but from the region at large. We are having so many scandals with tainted food in the U.S., salmonella in ground beef, peanut butter and spinach. We had the melamine scare. Food checks are seemingly inadequate to catch these incidents in a timely fashion which is not confidence building. I wrote up a brief intro into the radiation issue, with conversions for the fundamental units involved, here: brainmindinst.blogspot.com

@George Gibb Sadly, we have not seen any "reports" on what to do, how to protect yourself, etc. We have warnings for tornados, earthquakes, etc. and we're all taught (depending on location) what to do. It should be this way with radiation as well. It's criminal imo.

@Bobby1 yes, there are many things you can do, and people should know about these things

I did a brief warning last night in the air. You know, you want to not sound all doomandgloom, so I found myself, as I was reading saying "Cool and misty tonight, light nuclear rain falling." I found myself taking almost a casually dismissive attitude with it, and I'm passionate about this. So I took that tone off and said "Really. The press in this country may have you believe the Fukushima disaster is over, or very far away, but the release of radiation in the air is constant there, and while tiny, it accumulates, which you don't want. Rain falls through thousands of feet of air, acting like a vacuum cleaner all the way down. Don't linger in the rain. Use an umbrella. If you have a garden, wash your vegetables really well. That's what you can do now."

@Bobby1 Did the GoJ say that? No. I missed that story. Of course the press here mumbled "fukushimasdisasternowalevel7" before launching into the latest earth-shattering celebrity gossip.

Oh, I was just reading this and thought I should post it. atomicpowerreview.blogspot.com Saturday afternoon reactor update.

@radio guy Thank you for keeping this alive!!! It's only a matter of time before they start the wholesale dumping of the contaminated water into the sea followed by an announcement that the crisis has passed.

@Bobby1 Yes I went there instantly with that chunk.

@George Gibb the rain barrel issue needs to be prominent. I am going to set mine up but it won't be used for veggies or any consumption issues unless I run it through the distiller first.

I don't know the process of moving news to the archive. The news is still from the 22nd. Is it just a copy and paste to the other page?

@Nancy It's on my Monday list, too. Mondays are always days at the computer prepping my Tuesday show, and a lot of it is auditioning songs, which I can do fine while I work on other things.

I wonder if rad levels in the sea spike after rainfall, and how much.

@radioguy , they should outside the plant. I was actually waiting for that. They did not seem to have gotten intense rainfall yet.

long term radiation risk map by US DOE news.sciencemag.org

Someone emailed me this video this morning. Supposedly Busby thinks the explosion in #3 was a criticality type explosion or a "nuke" explosion rather than just hydrogen. Can people give me their thoughts on this theory? www.youtube.com