Okay, this is getting scarier. VPR:
The Vermont Health Department says the radioactive substance strontium-90 has been detected in the flesh of a fish north of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.
…this is the first time strontium-90 has been found in a part of a fish that is edible.
The Health Department says it cannot determine the source of the substance
Strontium-90 is one of the most dangerous constituents of reactor waste. It is a “bone seeker” and is associated with bone cancer, cancer of the soft tissue near the bone, and leukemia.
Yikes.
Nobody is even allowed to think about it unless they work for the NRC. Besides, it’s not like Mr Occam would say the Strontium came from VY…
It’s now made its way into ‘the edible portions’.
Who can forget these gems?
http://greenmountaindaily.com/…
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I don’t think good Entergy Louisiana’s good friend & faithful apologist Irwin will pull the handy ‘1950’s fallout’ or ‘Chernobyl fallout’ song & dance this time, but I’m sure there’s much more disinformation & many more distortions where those came from.
…which parts of a fish, exactly, are inedible? I know we Americans are very picky eaters, and won’t venture very far beyond the fillets. But it’s pretty common in most cultures to eat a lot more of a fish. Indeed, whole fish are often used in making stock if nothing else.
So (to make this comment slightly less tangential), in which parts of CT River fish has strontium-90 previously been found?
No PSB mandated weekly Groundwater Monitoring results posted monthly on VDH website, which show the activity of the ongoing radioactive nuclear waste leak.
http://healthvermont.gov/envir…
More troubling information regarding the troubled nuclear plant? My guess is a yes.
And, no information about the contaminated COB drinking water well or the ‘site conceptual model’, their latest coverup. Results are supposedly due sometime in August.
I don’t know how much stock I put in a Health Department that claims strontium-90 occurs “naturally” in the environment.
Since the Strontium-90 atoms do not say ‘Property of VT Yankee’ on them, therefore it can not be from VY!
See how science works?
This is the same reasoning the tobacco industry uses, BTW.
From today’s Free Press:
Since when has the Vermont Health Department been engaged to offer excuses for Entergy?
What bothers me is the fact that the fish were caught 13 months ago (June, 2010), and we’re just now getting the results!
Per Terri Hallenbeck:
And then Shumlin-appointed Health Commissioner (and former VT state Rep.) Harry Chen says, “I’d eat the fish” caught in the Windham County part of the Connecticut River. Okay, Commissioner Chen, you go ahead and take that risk for yourself. But why would you suggest that it’s just fine and peachy keen for children and pregnant women to take that risk?
What is it that officials don’t get about the fact that we are allowing corporations to poison us and our environment for decades and centuries to come – for short-term profit?
What happens to the Vermont “clean & green” brand when the Connecticut is no longer fishable? When soils within 50 miles of an aging and already leaking plant (an area crossing two or three state borders) are shown to be contaminated? Where will locals get their vegetables, their milk? How big a fence will we need to close off the contaminated area? How will Vermont handle the costs of lawsuits from other states for its negligence in allowing the contamination of a common resource? How do you fence off a river?
NanuqFC
The human race has today the means for annihilating itself … by careless handling of atomic technology through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure. ~ Max Born (Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1954; from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 1957)
BTW, in searching for the original BFP article from its main web page, I got the following results for sponsored links (screen captured):
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Click on the thumbnail to get something readable.
Just think, folks, we can buy Strontium at our nearest online vitamin shoppe for anywhere from $10.75 to $33.99. Of course that higher price purports to be from a Canadian source (the price inflation must be a result of that stronger-than-US-dollar we’ve been hearing about), but the county suffix for Canada is .ca, not .co as shown in the ad.
Somebody’s faulty algorithms are showing (assuming those ads are simply come-ons and not true). Talk about your “dirty bombs!”
NanuqFC
To repeat the error [of Hiroshima] by exhibiting, through the construction of nuclear reactors, the same disrespect for human life is the worst possible betrayal of the memory of Hiroshima’s victims. ~ Kenzaburo Oe (1994 Nobel Laureate)
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