Coup Media Group reports informs us that the first Radioactive particles from the nuclear fallout are now falling in California. Experts at UC Berkley have confirmed that the radioactive particles are from the MOX Japanese Fukushima reactors.
Additionally, the Raw Story reports UN officials have also detected the Radiation in the US.
Supposedly the US was increasing nuclear detection capabilities in a so called “abundance of caution”. Ironically there are no reports of the US Government detecting any radiation from their monitoring stations yet.
For background information see:
- Official UN Forecast: Japan Radioactive Fallout Heading To US West Coast
- Possible Fukushima Nuclear Fallout Projections For the U.S. Based on Wind Patterns
- Top US Officials: Japan Nuclear Reactor #4 Completely Breached, In Full Meltdown, Releasing Lethal Radiation – US Expands Evacuation Area To 50 Miles
- Officials Warn of New Chernobyl as Tokyo Abandoned And Radiation Hits Russia 500 Miles To The North
- Japan Lying – US Trying To Decipher Nuclear Radiation Fallout Reports
- ALERT: US Surgeon General Warns “Be prepared for harmful radiation from Japan”
- Top US Nuclear Official: Japan Radiation May Already Be Over US
First particles from Fukushima reactor reach U.S. soil
An official with access to the UN Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty data says that their machines have picked up the first particles from the nuclear accident at Fukushima in the United States.
The particles detected are, according to the Associated Press, said to be “about a billion times beneath levels that would be health threatening.”
Watch video about the fallout, first aired on Fox News on March 18, 2011.
Radiation – Detected in California Today
Friday, March 18, 2011 8:49
Radioactive particles from the MOX Japanese Fukoshima reactors has begun to fall in California. Experts at UC Berkley have confirmed that radioactive particles are being detected. Government officials stated that the radiation levels should not be concentrated enough to cause health problems to California residents yet, but conflicting opinions began to surface this morning surrounding potential health risks given longer term exposure and potentially increasing fallout. Even Mainstream media has began airing alerts of the potential fallout over US territories as early as Friday March 18th, and had advised that it is a good day to stay in doors and watch the basket ball game.
Japanese officials denied claims by the IAEA that MOX fuel rods in one if the Fukoshema reactors are now out of coolant and exposed.
The U.S. network known as Radnet is a system of 100 radiation monitors that work 24 hours a day, spread across the country in places such as Anaheim, Bakersfield and Eureka. In addition, a network of 63 sensors is operated by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, an international agency allied with the United Nations.
How to Protect your Family
As radiation is expected to begin falling in the United States within the next 15 hours, the best thing you can do if you are concerned is to keep your family, kids and pets in doors.
It is a good idea to monitor your home both inside and outside with a radiation monitoring devices like geigercounter and dosimeters. You can leave one dosimeter outside on a balcony and one indoors. As well as keeping on on your person at all times if you should go outside.
Shower regulrarly, especially after having been out doors.
Check the food you eat for radiation levels over the next year or so. Eating fruits and vegetables grown indoors oh Hydroponically will have a lesser chance of having been exposed to radiation.
Experts have advised Coup Media that the geigercounter model Victoreen CDV – 717 is a good affordable tool to monitor radiation levels around your home. You may also want to invest in a dosimeter.
Potassium Iodine / Iodide / KI03
Please remember that it is not a good idea to take Potassium Iodide unless it is absolutely eminent that you will be in contact with dangerous levels of radiation or without knowing the radiation levels around you. Your best defense for your protection and safety is to stay in doors and keep your windows closed. If you should find yourself in a potentially hazardous situation make sure that you understand the proper dosing of KI03, Additionally, Do Not by any means attempt to ingest liquid Iodine, this will provide no protection and is poisonous if ingested… Read More
For the latest radiation reports please visit Coup Media’s US Radiation Map provided by Radiationnetwork.com.
CNN: Small amount of radiation reaches California, official says
CNN is reporting the IEAE has detected radiation in Sacramento, CA.
Monitors in Sacramento, California, have detected a small amount of radioactive material from the earthquake-struck nuclear power plant in Japan, an official with the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization said. The exact amounts were not available, but were far less than what would be considered harmful to human health, the official said.
The Wall Street Journal writes about the radiation forecast hitting the US (before it was actually detected).
U.S. Officials Don’t Expect Radiation From Japan
Mr. Backer suggested a forecast developed by a United Nations agency that charted a potential path of a radiation plume from Japan to the U.S. West Coast — that was obtained and published by The New York Times — might not be accurate because by the time radiation particles reached U.S. shores they would be dispersed and no longer a plume.
“I’m not sure that a model of a plume this far away is accurate,” Mr. Backer said. “We’re talking about dispersal.”
The U.N.’s Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty organization confirmed it developed the “radiation plume” forecast and provided it to the governments of 120 nations, but declined to release the data to the public.
A spokeswoman at the EPA couldn’t say whether the agency had obtained data from the U.N. organization. A telephone call to the U.S. Department of Energy wasn’t returned.
The forecast shows that radiation particles would be diluted by a factor of more than 100,000, essentially harmless levels, on their journey from Japan to California, said Thomas McKone, a nuclear engineer and professor of environmental health sciences at the University of California in Berkeley. He added that the difference between a lethal dose of radiation and a trivial dose of radiation is only a factor of 1,000.
So just one day ago US officials denied the radiation would even hit the US, calling the official UN forecast inaccurate and based on a hypothetical situation that never even occurred. But now it is here so the next round of media coverage will be downplaying the harmful effects of radiation and reprogramming the masses that radiation is safe and nothing to be worried about. Sadly the populous will most likely forget a half of century of anti-communist, anti-terrorists propaganda based on the foundation of the threat of nuclear apocalypse.
In related news the Wall Street Journal is also reporting that radiation is being detected throughout the Pacific, with no mention of the detection in California.
Low Levels of Radioactive Material Begin to Be Detected Across Pacific
A network of international monitoring stations has begun to pick up the signatures of radioactive elements emitted by Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, a Swedish official said Thursday.
At high, sustained doses, these radioactive elements—including iodine and cesium—can be dangerous to human health.
However, the amounts released from the plant so far are small, and are largely being dispersed over the Pacific.
Currently, “they don’t pose a danger” to the U.S. or even other Asian countries, said Lars-Erik De Geer, research director at the Swedish Defense Research Institute, who has seen the data from the monitoring stations.
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The radiation-detecting network is run by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, a Vienna-based group that monitors any breaches of the test ban. It runs more than 60 such stations, including two in Japan. A unit in Kamchatka, Russia, more than 1,000 miles northeast of Fukushima, was the first to detect signs of the radiation.
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Dr. De Geer said the terms of the treaty prevented him from divulging specific details, such as the exact readings of different radioactive isotopes picked up by the monitoring network.
Surprise, surprise… conflicting reports among International Governments and mainstream media outlets with critical and vital details being withheld from the public.