Radiation Found in CA Rainwater!

A nuclear engineering academic department scientist at a university in California has recently made public the concentrations of radioactive material found in rain water collected on the roof of a hall on a Berkeley campus. The values reported for March 19 were measurements of 5.61 Becquerels per Liter for Iodine-131 and 0.26 Becquerels per Liter for Cesium-137 (a sampling run ending on 3/20 found slightly lower levels of Cesium-137 and 7.1 Becquerels per Liter for Iodine-131.)

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I am sure they are low and do not cause imediate health problems but I can assure you they will after long-term exposures to it. It means it's on everything from plants,animals,people etc. It may be small for us but what about insects? Would it be high enough to kill them off? The ants for example.. I don't know much about radiation so any info would be appreciated.

Here's a video with them testing it. Yes, I know, it's fox but an interesting watch.

video.foxnews.com...

Can someone please explain how to upload a youtube and google vid? I'm tired of trying lol

Does this mean unsafe extra levels of radiation or just your standard everyday radiation that is present in abundance around the world?

Im not trying to dump on your thread as i think this is really interesting but just querying the amounts? I may also be wrong in my assumptions about radiation but i have been led to believe that it is all over the place anyway?

S & F anyway

Originally posted by innervision0730
Can someone please explain how to upload a youtube and google vid? I'm tired of trying lol

what is the link to the video? I would be more then happy to help you out.

Aw man, its gonna be Fallout New Vegas soon.

Jesus: "Giant ants, Radscorpions, and super mutants! What more can you ask for"?

Me: "ummm....Guns would be nice"

Jesus: "right, of course"


No, seriously tho, i pray that everything turns out ok, the world is going to $##T right now.

-Peace be with all

Errr not CA hold on I missread. Hold on..

Radiation from the Soviets' stricken Chernobyl nuclear plant is now showing up in rainwater in the United States

HAHAHA, are they seriously blaming this on CHERNOBYL?

This article is from 1986!

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I know that's what I was thinking. Regardless, not good.

Agreed! How on EARTH, have they come to the conclusion that this is from Chernobyl?! Riiiight...

ETA: JVM is right... 1986.

That LA times article is from 1986.

(I see someone beat me to the Date checking which is usually one of the first things I do.)

Never mind, should probably read the article more thorough.

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Your article is about Chernobyl and is from 1986....

Please check your own sources!

~Namaste

Did they died?
2nd line.

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Ahh here! New link University Berkley tested positive for radioactive material in rainwater in CA hold on

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I did and it's changed. Wrong article. I edited the right one.

What in the world were you doing that you came across a 1986 article?

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It was saved right under it. Wasn't paying attnetion. Everything is fixed now.

Jesus people it was an error It's FIXED with the right link and info. This is not from the 80's it's from March 2011!

Okay, I just watched the Fox video and they said there's nothing. What's your point...