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2011/03/11
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EPA Updates
* May 3, 2011 - Return to Routine Operations
* May 3, 2011 - Joint FDA, NOAA and EPA Fact Sheet on Seafood Safety
* April 4, 2011 - Update on Drinking Water Monitoring
* April 2, 2011 - Update on Ongoing Monitoring
* March 30, 2011 - Update on Ongoing Milk Monitoring
* March 28, 2011 - EPA Monitoring Continues to Confirm That No Radiation Levels of Concern Have Reached the United States
* March 22, 2011 - Statement on Recent Findings in West Coast States and Hawaii
* March 18, 2011 - JOINT EPA/DOE STATEMENT: Radiation Monitors Confirm That No Radiation Levels of Concern Have Reached the United States
* March 15, 2011 - EPA Statement on Air Monitoring Effort
o Declaración de EPA (15 de marzo de 2011)
Mar 23, 2011
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CBC News
Posted: Mar 23, 2011 4:36 PM NT
Last Updated: Mar 23, 2011 4:36 PM NT
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Radiation monitors like these in Sidney, B.C., are detecting miniscule increases in radiation, presumably from the troubled Japanese reactors.
Radiation monitors like these in Sidney, B.C., are detecting miniscule increases in radiation, presumably from the troubled Japanese reactors.
(CBC)
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A detector in St. John's has picked up signs of radiation believed to have come from damaged nuclear power facilities in Japan.
Health Canada is analyzing the data.
There have been reports that minuscule amounts of radioactive particles — believed to have come from Japan — have also been detected in Iceland,
officials told Reuters Tuesday.
The amounts found in Iceland are believed to be too low to harm human health, according to the Icelandic Radiation Safety Authority (IRSA).
Traces of iodine-131 were discovered in an air filter used at a radiation monitoring center in Reykjavik the IRSA said Tuesday. Iodine-131 has also
reportedly been detected in eastern Newfoundland.
A nuclear plant in Japan leaked radiation after it was damaged by a tsunami and earthquake on March 11.
The Health Canada detector is located on the roof at Memorial University's Fisheries and Marine Institute.
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27 Mar 2011
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Radioiodine found in rainwater
No public health concern expected
Updated: Sunday, 27 Mar 2011, 8:01 PM EDT
Published : Sunday, 27 Mar 2011, 2:11 PM EDT
* Sy Becker
BOSTON (WWLP) - Raindrops containing low level radioactive material from Japan have reached Massachusetts. We're told there's nothing to worry about
right now.
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April 11
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News updates, April 11 2011 . (one month later)
Radiation Readings
Monitoring is ongoing by a variety of organizations:
TEPCO, IAEA, and MEXT,
among many others.
Radiation levels in most prefectures continue to hover at or slightly above background.
(For comparison, the average background rate is 0.05-0.1 microsieverts per hour.)
However, radiation dose rates in a few isolated areas are higher.
(maximum of 1.6 microsieverts per hour, most of which are inside the zone already ordered to evacuate or take shelter.)
Yukio Edano named these locations:
Katsuo, Kawamata, Namie, Iitate, and Minami Soma,
(maximum of 1.6 microsieverts per hour)
The dose rates reported by the IAEA in these areas have a
maximum of 1.6 microsieverts per hour.
For comparison, the average background rate is 0.05-0.1 microsieverts per hour.
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August 2011
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Oklahoma u.s.a.,, registering, 1.6 microsieverts, in rainfall.