Japan Earthquake

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Yes, harvest schedules become important. If you like cranberries or cranberry sauce, for instance, you'll probably want to buy them before this fall when this years crop is harvested after sitting in bogs all summer.
by RadioGuy 7/9/2011 5:20:00 PM

If you like orange juice, try to find the Brazilian variety. Brazil is a huge exporter of oranges and concentrate.
by Bobby1 7/9/2011 5:23:39 PM

I am not sure how much food is imported from the southern hemisphere, but I am going to start looking around
by Jo 7/9/2011 5:24:45 PM

Do you know which types of veggies and fruits are more radiation resistant.
by Jo 7/9/2011 5:28:10 PM

There's an international grocery nearby, they carry Argentinian and South African pears, South African kiwis, Mexican melons, limes & avocados and Italian oranges. Look at the stickers.
by Bobby1 7/9/2011 5:28:18 PM

@Bobby1 Thanks bobby
by Jo 7/9/2011 5:30:47 PM

Rice is going to be the killer. Early 2011 rice harvests have already hit the stores, and while the aged rices are still clean, at this point you're going to have to start worrying about 2011 rice. With a maturity average of 4-5 months, it's already possibly too late to trust 2011 plantings.
by RadioGuy 7/9/2011 5:30:56 PM

@Jo Those are the things we should begin compiling. I'll try to write something up later on today for the blog as a place to accumulate and drop info of this sort.
by RadioGuy 7/9/2011 5:33:46 PM

That grocery I mentioned sells Thai & Vietnamese rice... sadly there are huge 25lb packages of mostly California rice too.
by Bobby1 7/9/2011 5:35:22 PM

@RadioGuy that would be great....
by Jo 7/9/2011 5:35:39 PM

Idaho potatoes are going to be the worst. AVOID.
by Bobby1 7/9/2011 5:36:28 PM

Hi all, briefly stopping by. What is up with the food contamination thing? I saw something about Berkeley tests?
by lillymunster 7/9/2011 5:36:41 PM

lol Bobby.. I live in Idaho. now don't be too hard on our potatoes.. I ate one yesterday
by dean 7/9/2011 5:38:21 PM

HI LILLY..
by dean 7/9/2011 5:38:25 PM

@Bobby1 I noticed that Jasmine rice has a long maturity length (up to 9 months) so even if it's listed as 2011, that's harvest, so until about December, the Jasmine rice is probably clean. Basmati is aged up to 2 years, so it'll be clean for a while.
by RadioGuy 7/9/2011 5:38:25 PM

we were talking about the possible ways of helping the meat producers reduce levels of contamination in the meat.. there is an article back up a bit
by dean 7/9/2011 5:38:59 PM

Hi lilly and dean.
by Jo 7/9/2011 5:39:34 PM

hi jo
by dean 7/9/2011 5:40:00 PM

@lillymunster Self-protection. The realization is sinking in from the stories of product-shifting that they'll be trying harder to hide contaminated crops, not destroy them.
by RadioGuy 7/9/2011 5:40:09 PM

radioprotector
[rā′dē·ōpro-tek′ter]
an agent that provides protection against the toxic effects of ionizing radiation @lilly this is what was mentioned in an article I found
by dean 7/9/2011 5:41:13 PM

www.irpa.net this link also
by dean 7/9/2011 5:42:02 PM

So both the Japanese food supply games and confusion but also US and maybe other countries based on imports or growing region domestically? We have not seen EPA full testing again yet have we? They were due for the quarterly tests soon.
by lillymunster 7/9/2011 5:42:33 PM

Will have to take off again in a minute - it is epic garage cleaning day. Will be back after a quick run to the dump. :-)
by lillymunster 7/9/2011 5:43:03 PM

not sure on that.. lilly...
by dean 7/9/2011 5:43:14 PM

i am going out for my training ride.. will be back..
by dean 7/9/2011 5:43:22 PM

@lillymunster Re: the Berkeley tests, they're ramping down after non-detection after no-detection, but still showing contamination in milk, which led me to thinking about downstream contamination of concentrated milk, i.e. cheese.

Yes, they said 3 months, and that was mid-May, right?
by RadioGuy 7/9/2011 5:43:24 PM

@RadioGuy I think so on the EPA thing so that would be mid-August. Is there anyone else food testing in the US?
by lillymunster 7/9/2011 5:45:29 PM

@dean The dead-animal industry should be all-hands-on-deck now to try to figure out how to keep from losing their entire market as those giant bio-accumulators chow down on all that Cs-irradiated grass/corn/wheat/alfalfa/hay/whatever.
by RadioGuy 7/9/2011 5:46:21 PM

Standard Technical Specifications
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volume 1 pbadupws.nrc.gov
volume 2 pbadupws.nrc.gov
by elainekirk 7/9/2011 5:47:58 PM

In Le Monde, "Decades" to decontaminate Fukushima www.lemonde.fr Also a press conference from the CRIIRAD after measurements not on line yet but 490 000 Bq/m2 on the lawn of the primary school Mori more than 700,000 in the quarter Bq/m2 Watari , earth taken from the swings of the primary school Moria, a contamination of cesium 137 + 134 370,000 Bq / kg. Also some measurements of caesium deposits inside Tokyo. I'll end the link when it will be on line.
by Olivier 7/9/2011 5:53:31 PM

www.compassnaturalmarketing.com
This is an excellent article with lots of links that breaks down the food testing (and Berkeley's place in it) very well.
by RadioGuy 7/9/2011 5:56:30 PM

this is coopers modification to the main steam thingummywhatnot pbadupws.nrc.gov
by elainekirk 7/9/2011 6:05:20 PM

Leakage paths at Cooper pbadupws.nrc.gov
by elainekirk 7/9/2011 6:14:52 PM

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by elainekirk 7/9/2011 6:28:11 PM

@RadioGuy Thanks for the article.
by Jo 7/9/2011 6:29:59 PM

back later, ttfn
by Jo 7/9/2011 6:31:03 PM

@Jo @RadioGuy echoing Jo there radioguy glad you posted that :)
by elainekirk 7/9/2011 6:34:38 PM

Here's a particularly telling paragraph from the Compass article below:
Chris Busby, Ph.D., Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, who published a “Don’t Panic” guide in early April saying that the danger was insignificant, later changed his opinion. In an April 24 statement to Washington’s Blog, Busby said, “…since then I have re-thought this advice as the thing is still fissioning and releasing 10 to the fourteen Becquerels a day. This will mean that strontium 90 and uranium and particulates will be building up in the USA and Europe. I will assess this later but for now I think it prudent to stop drinking milk.”
by RadioGuy 7/9/2011 6:55:19 PM

Nothing has changed for the better since then.
by RadioGuy 7/9/2011 6:55:44 PM

@RadioGuy I am non techi but Busby annoyed me from the start because he was influencial in killing interest in fuku amongst the global population and in doing so he removed a safety factor for the people of fuku because he gave tepco and goj a license to abuse
by elainekirk 7/9/2011 7:00:14 PM

@elainekirk Exactly, so his mea culpa was a bit too little too late for me, but particularly telling considering the source.

One problem is that the milk-replacement options are thinning as well. What do you use? Rice milk? (Bog grown) Nut milk? (Rad sponge) Soy milk? (field grown, then soaked and concentrated).
by RadioGuy 7/9/2011 7:01:58 PM

The Committee has published two works, the ECRR 2003 Recommendations of the European Committee on Radiation Risk: Health Effects of Ionising Radiation Exposure at Low Doses for Radiation Protection Purposes. Regulators' Edition; and ECRR Chernobyl 20 Years On: the Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident. Chernobyl 20 Years On is cited in one Pubmed-published document: a review by Professor Rudi H. Nussbaum from Portland State University which challenges the accepted view of the long-term health consequences from the incident.[6] Shortly after the 2003 Recommendations was published the United Kingdom's Health Protection Agency issued a response, in which they describe the ECRR as "...a self-styled organisation with no formal links to official bodies" and criticize its findings as "arbitrary and [without] a sound scientific basis. Furthermore, there are many misrepresentations of [the] ICRP".[7] en.wikipedia.org
by elainekirk 7/9/2011 7:04:16 PM

@elainekirk Of course, given that no one (to their shame actually) considered at the start that TEPCO would be flat-out lying to the GoJ and the entire world, there's a minimal kind of excuse there, but most of the people who bought it should have known better (and possibly did until the CYA express started up).
by RadioGuy 7/9/2011 7:04:35 PM

@RadioGuy but you all saw the lies for what they were !! why did no other gov or industry body stand up and say anything because I dont want to believe they were all just gullible it is too scary
by elainekirk 7/9/2011 7:06:39 PM

Depleted Uranium Storage Facility Also Burned when Cosmo Oil’s Gas Tank Exploded

On June 30 Chiba Prefectural Assembly held meetings of 2 standing committees [...] it was revealed that the LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) tank fire and explosion at Cosmo Oil Refinery in Ichihara City, Chiba also burned the adjacent depleted uranium storage facility. There was no leak of radioactive materials, according to the committee. enenews.com
by Majj 7/9/2011 7:09:01 PM