LOS ANGELES (AP) — Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.

"We were frankly kind of startled," said Nicholas Fisher, one of the researchers reporting the findings online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in pr

I like how you cut off the quote before it read "still far below safe to eat limits..." Classy move at creating sensationalism. You can't treat news like a buffet, taking the facts you want and leaving the rest behind.

The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that's still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the U.S. and Japanese governments.

Originally posted by BeliefInReality
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I like how you cut off the quote before it read "still far below safe to eat limits..." Classy move at creating sensationalism.

You can't treat news like a buffet, taking the facts you want and leaving the rest behind.

· Accumulation in the Critical body organs: These radiations accumulate in the critical organs of our bodies like liver, thyroid gland, spleen, lungs and bone marrow. For example bone and adjacent bone marrow are body organs vulnerable to plutonium, radium, and strontium. Radio Iodine collects in the thyroid gland.

Just us and nature. Mankind makes me sick!!!!

Hey how about this. I'll get some of those cesium tuna purchased and delivered free of charge to your place and you go ahead and eat it and feed it to your family, w all that extra cesium. Smarty pants mug

To rule out the possibility that the radiation was carried by ocean currents or deposited in the sea through the atmosphere, the team also analyzed yellowfin tuna, found in the eastern Pacific, and bluefin that migrated to Southern California before the nuclear crisis. They found no trace of cesium-134 and only background levels of cesium-137 left over from nuclear weapons testing in the 1960s.

Originally posted by speculativeoptimist
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True true, but it may affect the portions recommended for safe consumption. I also wonder if the threshold of damage has peaked yet, in terms of amount of radiation dispersed from that area and/or soaked up by sea life?
< turns fear volume down a tad >

Originally posted by dominicus

Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to US

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.

"We were frankly kind of startled," said Nicholas Fisher, one of the researchers reporting the findings online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in pr

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