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@RBeaner : the eu has raised the limit due to emergency rules, but the national limit here is still lower, not raised (you know, the people here are very sensitive).

as long as they do not unload the ballast, i don't care if it is radiated.

There are a Japan Coast Guard ship patrolling Fukushima... click to see the ships' track marinetraffic.com

@Edano Right on

@RBeaner : not by heart. i think 500 bq/kg, and for meat 800 Bq/kg. the eu has 1,200 Bq/kg.

off to work.

The lower permissible thresholds will bring the EU into line with tougher domestic limits in Japan, and are likely to be agreed by member states this Friday (8 April). euobserver.com

@lillymunster @smoss Do we want to set up a post on the blog as a collecting place for it?

@radioguy I vote yes! Seems like a good way to cross reference, avoid repetition and nail down discrepancies.

OK. I'll make it basic, since it's just a collecting place now. I'll put it in Research Projects, which will display the title in the sidebar but no Front page text.

@elainekirk Yes it is but we need millions more in order to stop the madness.

Andrei Sakharov predicted virus/bacteria pandemics in 1950's
"Back in the 1950s, the so-called ‘father of the [Soviet] hydrogen bomb’ predicted that the radioactive fallout from the ‘Cold War’ could accelerate the rise of mutant pathogens, including influenzas."
"Andrei Sakharov, the atomic scientist-turned-critic, wrote in his book 'Memoirs' (published last decade) that in the late 1950s he suggested 'that a global increase in mutations of bacteria and viruses...might have been an important factor in the spread of such diseases as diphtheria in the nineteenth century, or the influenza epidemic, and that low-level radiation might further increase the rate of mutations.’"
"Sakharov's 1950’s prediction may have come true according to a rare grouping of scientists who have connected the rise of certain diseases and disorders with the peaking of radioactive emissions from nuclear power plants on regional scales or nuclear testing on a global scale. Sara Shannon, author of 'Technology's Curse: Diet for the Atomic Age,' wrote in the late 1990s that new ailments such as Reyes Syndrome, Legionnaire's Disease, and Lyme Disease (and possibly AIDS) may be related to the deadly combination of immune systems weakened and virus mutations worsened by the presence of man-made radiation. Shannon notes that Lyme Disease appeared in about the same year that a huge radiation release from one of two Connecticut nuclear power plants occurred. She speculated that the radioactive fallout in southeastern Connecticut may have mutated the spirochete in tick-borne Lyme Disease, which has now spread to Canada and numerous U.S. states. If you consider that nuclear testing fallout spread to nearly every square mile of the Earth, still hasn’t fully decayed and is detectable in nearly every country's food chains, including livestock, then you get a better idea of the possibility that all viruses or bacteria everywhere have an increased chance of mutating into something worse."
More: www.nuc.berkeley.edu

@elainekirk do you have this? docs.google.com